The Independent Republic Quarterly

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The Independent
VOL. 3
Republic Quarterly
JULY 1969
Old bath house and pavilion,
Myrtle
NO.3
Beach, torn down in 1920.
Edited for The Horry Courrty Historical Society
by
Florence TheodQra Epps, 514 Main Street, Conway, S. C. 29526
HORRY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OFFICERS
The county
with a heart
That will win your heart
- Ernest
Richardson
President
C. Foster
Vice-President
Tempe Hughes Oehler, Myrtle Beach
Secretary
Miriam Tucker, Conway
Treasurer
Rebecca
Historian
Aleen Paul Harper, Bucksport
Publicity
Florence
Chairman
Smith, Myrtle Beach
Bryan, Conway
Theodora Epps, Conway
Laura Janette
Assistants
Catherine
Quattlebaum,
H. Lewis,
Conway
Conway
Archeologist
Frank A. Sanders,
Board of Directors
Ruby Lee Moore Wachtman, Conway
Catherine
Lewis,
Conway
Conway
Nelle Bryan, Conway
Dues: $3.00 annually for individuals, $5.00 for married couples ~d $1.00 for students
under 21. Checks payable to the Horry County Historical Society may be sent to Miss!
Rebecca Bryan, 606 Main Street, Conway, S. C. 29526.
Members may purchase additional copies' at 50¢' a piece;
non-members may purchase
copies at $1.00 a piece.
EDITORIAL POLICY
Nothing in this journal shall be reprinted
of the editQr.
Contributions
nor read in public without the written consent
from members and friends of the Society are invited.
Should you become disputatious over any item published herein, be assured that all infor.nation has been verified to me by the informant named and accepted by me in good faith.
The Sditor
July 1969
The Independent Republ ic Quarterl y
TURNING THE TABLES
Recently on WIS, TV, Columbia, a man in high
dudgeon _~xclaimed, "Myrtle Beach isn;t South
Carolina!" Though we walked into the room just
in time to catch his last words and a fleeting
glimpse, he was evidently appearing before the
1egis1a ture.
The INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC QUARTERLY,
Volume 3, Number 1, January 1969, printed James
W. Ogilvie's analysis of Horry from the time of
the Hampton Revolution to that of Tillman in
1890, originally published in the HORRY HERALD, September 30, 1909. Though Horry had
been the first county in the state to throw off
the degrading system of Reconstruction,
Editor
Ogilvie said: "The claims of Horry were disregarded - they were not even considered. Marion
lawyer s dictated the p<?!itical policy of Horry
and controlled her vote." Thus we were under
the political yoke of Marion, which county looked
down with .scorn on our citizens as "s~mething
from Horry." Elsewhere in this journal yo~ may
read .of the physical dependence of Myrtle Beach
upon the "/comfortab1e sand and clay turnpikes;;
to Marion making possible an influx of tourists
in 1921.
By our own" thrift and perception,
our natural
beauty and advantage, we have drawn so many
eager to enjoy our strand and its neighboring
land, to mingle with our native citizens, Horry
is now the envy of beholders and beholden to
none!
For the third time, our July issue calls yoU!
attention to Myrtle Beach and our Grand Strand.
THANK
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rolled off the press. Nor are these orders all from
persons with ancestry or background in the Independent Republic; many are from total strangers
who wr ite of the freshness and wide coverage of
interests
shown in our pages. We are the only
county in the state publishing
such a journal.
Thank you for your contributions.
Continue to
send them to us so that we may continue to prove
that "doing what comes naturally;; is right for
Horryites.
STYLES IN EPITAPHS
In the old churchyard of Salem Methodist Church
on Highway 90, between Conway and Little
River, are woo~en markers so· worn and overgrown with moss that no names appear~ The following inscriptions may be found there on stones:
Annie E.
Wife of
Dr. M. E. McNeill
Born
July 24, 1833
Died
March 8, 1907
Eliza
Wife of
E.Watts
Born
June 15, 1836
Died
May 6, 1909
Remember,
As you are
Where I am
Prepare for
friend, as you pass by,
now so once was I
now you soon shall be
death and follow me.
YOU!
Pictures, papers, and records of your families
are increasing not only the size of our Quarterly,
but ~so membership in our society.
Word of
Horry's first recorded history (for public consumption) has spread far and wide, resulting in a
steady stream of requests for all back issues
pius memberships for the current year. Alas and"
alack, _six issues are no longer available! The
April '69 issue was sold out a month after it
Frank D.
Son of Mr. and Mrs.
E. H. McNeill
July 11, 1897
Jan. 25, 1904
The lovely flower
has faded
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REQUEST FOR HUCKS FAMILY DATA
Dear Mr. Hucks,
We are trying to complete some of our family
history and need to bring the Hucks family data
up to date. We were delighted to learn of your
interest in the Historical Society .•• understand
you are president .•• and hope thl;lt you may be
able to help us in our search, or at least suggest
some way of getting _the information we need.
Many of my husband's ancestors lived in Conway, among them the Hucks, Godbolds, Squires,
and. Brinsons. What we need is first names, but
don't quite .know how
to go about getting them.
.
My husband's great grandmother was Mary Elizabeth Godbold, born in that area 15 July, 1837.
, Father was a Godbold and mother a Hucks, but
;"no fir st names are given. I noticed that a Jesse
"Goclbold is on the list of taxpayers for Horry
. County for 1845-46, so possibly this is th~ hus':
, band of Miss Hucks. Now we are wondering about
Miss Hucks - her given name arid relationship
in the Hucks family, etc.
In January we made a trip to the State Archives
at Columbia, and I found many references to the
Hucks family, but nothing to help at this time.
The census for that area was not available,
either. Could you perhaps suggest something
further? I have a copy of a will for David Hucks,
and have many notes pertaining to Joseph, John
R., Robert, and W. W. Some of it came from A
HISTORY OF MARIONCOUNTY by E. W. Sellers,
who is also an ancestor, so you can see we are
quite interested in Conway and the surrounding
area.
A Mrs. O.R. Elkes in Tampa is also working on
Hucks data. She has an Ann Rebeckah Hucks
born in 1860, (daughter of Isabel West and ---Hucks), married to Peter James Elkes in 1877.
The family also includes the. McCormicks, Stevens, and Harrelsons of Conway, or Horry County.
Does your society put out any type of publication concerning Conway that we might purchase?
Or, do you have any members with the following
names that might care to fill us in on some of
the family history? - Hucks, Godbold, Squires,
Sellers, Brinson, Elkes, West, Harrelson, SteveQs,McCormick.
I
We would be extremely grateful for any help on
this. Thank you kindly.
Sincerely,
~
-
O~
/~
Mrs. John H. Tolbert
6593. Eastview Drive
Lake Worth, Florida 33460
P .S. We would be glad to share ANY data we
have on these families with those who may be
interested.
A LETTER FROM CHARLOTTE
When Mr. Albert
in Conway,
would
T~ey
·was Methodist
he suggested
the Epworth
tute
Betts
in N.Y.
ship
League
to the young
minister
people
of
that they write to Pratt Insti-
requesting
discarded
came in 'barrei~;
books.
books,
Pratt
Institute
freight
collect.
and arrived
sometime
dur-:'
ing 1911. How long the request had been in I do
. not know.
There w.ere at least
three barrels,
perhaps more. They were put in the small. room
in the back of the church and the group would
meet at least once a week to sort out the books.
They worked hard and enjoyed it, and had lots
of Jun. Some of the books were in rather
bad
shape,
and even Conway had to discard some.
Among them was a copy of CONFESSIONS OF AN
ENGLISH OPIUM EATER by Thomas De Quincey
- it was literally falling to pieces,
so I took itr
There was also a copy on the life and works of
Robert
Burns
-
this
had
evidently
never
been
taken ~fi theshei~es
in Pratt. I asked for it and
as no one felt that it would be any more interesting to Horryites
than to New Yorkers,
they said
I might have it. It was in this book that I later
found the letter from Charlotte
Bronte. I have
tried to have a copy made from this, but the result was not ·satisfactory.
If later, with the newer
equipment,
I can get a better copy I will give
one to the Historical
Society.
•
Lucille
B. Godfrey
Haworth August 25th --
1851
Dear Ellen,
I am thankful to say that Papa's convalescence
seems now to be quite confirmed. There is
~ciuce~y any rema~~er of the. inflammation in his
July 1969
eyes and his general health progresses satisfactorily .. He. begins even to look forward to resuming his duty erelong - but caution must be
observed on that head.
Ma~tha has been very willing and helpful during
Papa's illness.
Poor Tabby is ill herself at
present with English cholera which complaint
together with influenza have lately been almost
universally present in this district', of the last
I have just myself had a touch - but it went off
very gently on the whole - affecting my chest
and liver less than any cold has done over the
last t~ree .years ..
I trust, dear Ellen, you are w~l1 in health yourself. This visit to the South has not so far been
productive of unmingled present pleasure - yet
it may bring you future benefit in more ways than
one.
I write to you about your self rather under constraint and in the dark - for your letters,
dear
Nell, are most remarkably oracular - dropping
nothing but hints which tie my tongue a good
deal. What for instance can I say to your last
postscript?
It is quite Sybilline. I can hardly
guess what checks you in writing to me. There
is certainly no one in this house or elsewhere to
whom I should ~how your notes - and I do not
imagine they are in any peril in passing through
the Post-office.
Perhaps you think that as I generally write
with some reserve, you ought to do the same. My
reserve, however, has its foundation not in de. sign, but in necessity. I am silent because I have'
literally NOTHING TO SAY. I might indeed repeat over and over again that my life is a pale
blank and often a weary burden - and that the
future sometimes appals me - but what end would
be answered by such repetition
EXCEPT to
weary you and enervate myself? The evils that
now and then wring a groan from my heart lie in
(
) - not that I am SINGLE woman and
likely to remain a SINGLE woman - but because
I am a LONEL Y woman and likely to be LONELY.
But it cannot be helped and therefore IMPERA. TIVEL Y MUST BE BORNE - and borne with as
few words aMut it as may be.
I write all this just to prove to the you that
whatever you WOULD freely say to me - you may
Just as freely write.
Understand -' that I remain just as resolved as
ever not to allow myself the holiday of a visit
from you - till I have done my work. After labor
pleasure
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- but while work was lying at the (
undone, I never yet could enjoy recreation.
Your s very faithfully,
C. Bronte
By 1851, when this letter was written, Charlotte
was. the last surviving of six children. Her mother
had died in 1821, Maria and Elizabeth
in 1825.
In 1848 Branwell succumbed
to drink and opium.
Emily caught cold at his funeral and died December,19,
1848. Anne, who like Maria, Elizabeth
and Emily, sufi ered from tuberculosis,
died in
. May, 1849. Patrick
Bronte: the father, was in
failing health.
Charlotte
had been to London shortly before
this letter was written and had been well received
in literary and social circles, but had returned to
Haworth parsonage
to be with her father. She
addressed
herself
to Ellen Nussey,
a lifelong'
friend. They had met at Roe Head School when
Charlotte
was fifteen
and Ellen
fourteen
and
their
correspondence
over
the remainder
of
Charlotte's
life is the source of much that we
know about the secretive
Bronte·s. Henry Nussey,
the clergyman brother of Ellen, was the first of
four men known to have proposed
marriage to
Charlotte.
She did finally marry her father's former curate,
Arthur Bell Nicholls,
in June, 1854. it w~s a
happy marriage, but late in 1854, she caught cold
and was soon ill with tuberculosis.
This, coupled
with pregnancy,
caused her death on March 31,
1855.
The other persons mentioned
in the letter are
Tabitha Aykroyd and Martha Brown who were beloved servants in the parsonage.
My photo copy of the letter is blurred by the
passage of time and there are two words indic ated by (
) which I cannot read.
Catherine
Beverly
Jones
and Patricia
8anner
H. Lewis.
In ••A Letter
For
Charlotte" presented by The Playhouse, Florence Epps'
children theatre. Conway. By request. pictures and all printed matter were placed in the Bront~ Museum,Haworth.
Page 6,
The Independent
Republic Quarterly
by Herbert Hucks, Jr.)
Part I
Sta te of South Carolina
County of Horry
Ex Parte
Sarah M. Stalvey
Albert D. Stalvey
In Re
Court of Probate
Petition of Letters
of Administration
Estate of
Isaiah Stalvey, deceased
To Hon. William E. Hardwick,
Probate
Judge:
I. The petition of the above named petitioners
respectfully
shows: That on or about the 3rd
day of April A.D. 1878, Isaiah Stalvey, late
of this county and state aforesaid, departed
this life intestate,
leaving him surViving as
his heirs at law and entitled to his est~l}
your petitioners Sarah M. Stalvey, his widow,
and 18 children, viz: Mrs. N.A. Jones, George
Stalvey, Mrs. Eliza C. Stalvey, Mrs. K. R.
Hucks, Mrs. Annie Clardy, Mrs. Martha A.
J ones, Mr~. I.S. King, Mrs. A.E. Goldfi nch,
Prichard Stalvey, A.D. Stalvey, B.H. Stalvey,
Georgie A. Stalvey, who are of age, and the
following who are minors: Rutilla R., Wilson
S., Archie 8., Mary W., John W.K., and Wade
Hampton Stalvey. (1-9-1886, under guardianship of A. D. Stalvey, released 1885.
II. That said intestate
was possedsed,
at the
time of his death, of personal estete of th~
probably value of between four hundred dollars and five hundred dollars.
III. That there has been no administration
upon
the estate of said intestate.
Wherefore your
petitions
pray that, after the publication of
the legal citation as required by law, letters
of administration
upon the estate
of said
Isaiah Stalvey, deceased,
be granted unto
your' petitioners.,
And your petitioners
will
ever pray etc.
Johnson and Quattlebaum
Attys. pro Petitioners
Sept. 27th, 1885
A. D. Stalvey, one of the petitioners abov~ named
being "duly sworn says that the foregoing petition
is true of his own knowledge, except as to the
matters therein stated on information or belief,
and as to those matters he believes the same to
be true.
1969
Part II
Judge of Probate, Horry Co., S. C., File 18-C
Estate #13
OF ISAIAH STALVEY OF SOCASTEE
(Contributed
July
A true and perfect inventory and just appraisement of all and singular the goods and chatties,
sights and credits belonging to the Estate of
Isaiah Stalvey deceased late of Socastee. County
of Horry and state of South Carolina to wit.
1 hand mill, round top
1 hand mill, flat top
1 corner cupboard
1 covered box hinges broken
1 tin 4 gal saw without cover
1 sugar bucket without pail
2 wooden piggins
1 bread tray
2 yellow earthen bowls
2 dishes one round one flat
3'plat~s "
1 molasses pot tin
1 pine dining table
1 stone jar with cover
1 spinning wheel
2 country made chairs
1 lancet
4 four gallon jug
1 three gallon jug broken
1 three gallon jug
one qt. jug
lone funnel
1 mollasses Bbl.
1 100m and (site?) of 100m harness
1
3
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
long bench (pine)
@1.50
hives of bees
nut trays
old pork barrels
grape grinder
pot % bushel
oven broken
oven without cover
old grindstone
pieces old iron at mill
flat sugar pan broken in garden
molasses scuttle #1 in furnace
molasses scuttle #2 in furnace
cain mill and fixterris
jug under shed
cider press frame
pr broken cast wheels
hor se cart wood axles
roller for planting rice
old cotton plow
$ 5.00
5.00
3.00
.05
.05
.15
.20
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1 lot of old iron and springs
1 rice mortar and 4 pessels
3 old hoes and one shovel
2 pitch forks
1 lot of harness wood and iron
1 ox yoke
1 monkey wrench
3 augers one compass and t square
1 oak barrel as barn
4 pine bedsteads hand made
3 wool matresses
2 feather beds
4 feather pillows
2 wool bowl!:ters
6 quilts
1 sideboard or slab
1 clock
1 omaer hand lamp
3 vol Bensons commantarys
2 vol fletchers clercks
2 old family bibles
1 Life of Christ
1 Bible looking glass
1 Watsons dictionary
1 Wesleys sermons
12 other books
1 old trunk
1 wash stand
1 cow bell
1 white ox named Toni
2 cows and two calves
3 cows and three calves at Pritchards
4 heifers 2 years old
1 steer 2 years old
1 bull 2 .years old
1 old white bull
6 dry cows
3 steers 3 years old
1 larger red steer
2 three year old heifers in woods
1 Bar mare Kate
1 Bay mare colt
78 head of sheep in woods
4 head of hogs
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LULA SHAW'S NOTEBOOK
Mrs. Sadie D. Clark of Hurl Rocks, Myrtle
Beach, has a notebook once belonging to her
mother and inscribed, "Presented to Lula
Shaw from her Grandmother, Dec. 25th, 1884."
Miss Lula married C. Ben Du~enbury and lived
with him at The Ferry, Bull's Creek, and at
Bell;s Bay, both premises in the Bucksport
vicinity of Horry. For many years they lived
Over The Gully in Conway on a lot now marked
1400 9th Avenue. Their old home, a two-story
frame dwelling, has been moved to 1309 16th
Avenue where it is owned and occupied by Dr.
and Mrs. J. S.• Smith. Their former lot is now
owned and occupied by Dr. and Mrs. Hugh C.
Godefroy whose residence is a modern style
brick one•
Ir.
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37.50
20.00
5.00
5.00
10.00
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30.00
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20.00
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Less error on one calf at
Pritchards
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3.00
-----------$582.15
Dr. William A. Sessions'
review of the IRQ,. printed
in the Charleston NEWS AND COURIER, June 29,
1969
Dr. Sessions,
. , will appear in our October issue,
.
.
is an English professor at Geor gia State UmversIty.
Mrs.
Lula
Shaw Dusenbury in front of her Myrtle Beach
cottage, about I 925.
While Myrtle Beach was still in the incubator,
and almost exclusively a Conway and Horry
resort, the Ben Dusenb.urys were among the first.
ten families to build summer cottages on the
"
strand. During World War II the property was
sold and is now owned by ~r s. Mary Sarkis
Hobeika (See IRQ, Vol. 2., No.3, July 1968),
who has built an elegant motel, The Diplomat,
on it and adjoining lots.
Before her marriage, Miss Lula attended a
house party at The Ark, a home on the strip of
land now called Surfside Beach, and another at
Woodlawn, Murrells Inlet, the home of Mr. and
Mrs. S.S. Dusenbury. We wanted to show you the
signatures of the guests at these beach parties;
however, we were unable to· secure clear copies,
and so merely print them here:
Seashore party at the Ark July 2nd 1885.
Page 8
Virginia Lee Stuart, Conway, S. C.
George C. Buck Did you ever see a fly on the
wall
C. B. Dusenbury - Port Harrelson, S.C.
Jas. R. Parker, Conway, S.C.
Phenie Carraway, Georgetown, S.C.
C. P. Quattlebaum, Conway, S.C.
E. Van Dusenbury, Sonastee, S.C.
C. F. Buck
J. T. Quattlebaum, Conway, S.C.
Meta Workman,Marlow, S.C.
Alice Buck
Bessie Dusenbury
Lizzie A. Buck, Bucksville, ~.C.
Joe S. Dusenbury (Just 'Duse' for short)
Walter R. Heyman, Palmyra, N.C.
Beach Party at Woodlawn for
A. D. Stalvey
J. G. Cook
J. M. Woodward
W. R. Heyman
Della C. Moore
E. Van Dusenbury
Lucy E. Mayo
Ruth Burroughs
Rosa Buck
Joe S. Dusenbury
Alice Buck
C. B. Dusenbury
J. E. Fletcher
Chas. Dusenbury
B. N. Stalvey
Georgie Jollie
.(
) Davis
Ella B. Buck
R. G. Dusenbury
Carrie L. Mayo
Maud Mayo
Lutie Mayo
lola Buck
Joe Carraway
July 7th 1886
S. W. Gillespie
W. E. Dusenbury
G. W. Spivey
J. Frank Dusenbury
J. ,S. Buck
S. L. Dusenbury
F. M. Johnson
E.B.
Gussie Mayo
D. A. Spivey
(
) A. Buck
Bessie Dusenbury
L. N. Moore
Rosa S. Dusenbury
J. Saye Dusenbury
F. L. Dusenbury
C. H. Dusenbury
J .F. Spivey
Minnie Moore
Eddie Jollie
Sam Harper
Mr. Jollie
Sam Dusenbury
-Ettie Nollie
AN EMERGENCY CALL
As our distribution increases, so does the
number of. families who send in material for
publication. Therefore we urge you who can type
or proofread, please to volunteer your services
by calleng Conway 248-5888.
July 1969
KIND WORDS
1313 North 192nd
Seattle
Congratulations of such a successful beginning! Weneed more S.C. counties doing the same.
My interests are mainly the Old Cheraw area and
poor Chesterfield Co. has so little records,"
Anson Co. (N.C.) has a bit more but still not
enough - my family of major interest had a
house right on the State Line. Needles,~ to say,
I reach for anything labelled "Carolina."
Enclosed check for $6.00 is for as many back
issues as that entitles me.
Best wishes in all your endeavors to preserve
and share genealogical data.
Sincerely"
(Miss) Mary Lou McLendon
My maternal lines: (also includes Mc(C)Lendon,
McCaskill, Lowry, Douglas, McLean, Phillips,
Leonard, Huntley, Wilson, and Bell. My pater.!1al
lines moved thru both Carolinas on way tb Ga.
and Fla.: Barnett, Bledsoe, Brockman, Collins,
Fincher, Griggs (?), Ham(m), Harman, King and
a Smith Family who married into the Ham Family.
414 Lanford St.
Greer, S. C.
Each time our Quarterly comes to us I want to
write you of our joy in getting it. Especially do
I desire you to know that our pleasure in the
way you show friendly interest by editing data
from the long ago is colossal.
You show thoughtful affection for us all in
your collections.
As ever your friend,
Maud Gelzer
ERRATA
In Vol. 3, No.2, Apr. ;69, p. 19, the initials of
Mr. Huggins should have been M. B. instead of
P. B.,)n the interview called "Mr. Hucks of
Horry."
July 1969
Page 9
The Independent Republic Quarteriy
Myrtle
Beach
Before
Sadie Dusenbury and Ella Little
climbing
stairs to pavilion on top of bath house of
Myrtle Beach Hotel. Boardwalk leads to hotel
which was behind the dunes out of sight of
the sea.
World
War
I
~aura Rhem, guest of the Dusenburys, dri nkIng from horse trough and well of old Myrtle
Beach Farms Company Store
Ella Little,
Fannie Dusenbury, laura
DusenbLl'Yand hotel in background.
Rhem, Mr. C. B.
'\.
Fannie
little.
Dusenbury, Sadie Dusenbury, laura
Rhem, Ella"
J. F. Dusenbury Jr., and Gordon DusenbLl'y, Cottage to the
right is the C. B. Dusenb"LI'Ysummerhome.
Page 10
BIRDS OF MYRTLE BEACH
Emeline Dusenbury
Miss Dusenbury's
letter was originally published in THE Columbia STATE, in a column called
"Birds"
by Mrs. G.E. Charles.
Herbert Hucks,
Archivist,
Wofford College, submitted it without
a date. However,
at the time, no doubt in the
'40' s, Miss Dusenbury,
of a large family of
nature lovers, was living with them at Cherokee
PIece, Highway 17, Hurl Rocks.
Last year Cherokee Place was moved across
the road and converted into a restaurant using a
misnomer;
Hurl Rock, instead
of Hurl Rocks,
which is the correct and historic name for the
section.
t
•
Emeline Dusenbury as a little girl.
Dear Mrs. Charles:
After reading your column, "IBirds," in The
State of April 9 1 decided 1 would try to tell you
of the birds that we have in our yard. Our yard is
a block, a little less than three acres, in the
town of Myrtle Beach. It is two miles south of
the business section, on the highway and a very
short walk from the ocean.
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On your walk in "Woodlands" you listed 24
species seen in two and a half hour s. 1 made a
list of the birds 1 saw in our yar d on Easter
Sunday. Here it is: Chickadees, building in a
gourd; tufted titmice, the tiny blue-gray gnatcatchers, a pine warbler, a downy woodpecker,
cardinals, Carolina wrens, white-throated sparrows, three hermit thrushes, a thrasher, a fussy
blue jay, a pair of mockingbirds and a flicker,
a ruby-throated humming bird resting for a second
on a twig and then flying away, in a mad rush,
when 1 came too near. Also the red-eyed towhees,
a small chipping sparrow, a catbird, and two
different warblers. Some crows and two gulls
were flying overhead and soon that morning 1 had
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heard a whip-poor-will, which was the first sound
1 had heard from him this year.
Most of the birds that were here during the
winter have gone and soon the white-throated'
sparrows and hermit thrushes will leave. Some
birds that were here for short stays during migration last fall and winter were the robins,
cedar waxwings, blue birds, juncos and snow
birds, phoebes, red-winged blackbirds, fox
sparrows, purple finches, the pileated woodpeckers, redstarts and lots of the warblers.
Very soon the birds who wintered farther south
will be coming back to make their homes with us
next fall. These are the summer tanagers (I will
have to tell you this about them: A pair built,
two years ago, in a tree near the house and tied
their nest to the limb with a string. After fastening one end to the nest, they took the other and
flew around the limb until the nest was securely
fastened and all the string used up), the _wood
thrush, or as we call him our 'Organ Bird,' will
soon arrive to build in a low limb of a scrub oak
or dogwood and find some white paper to decor,,:
ate his nest. The painted bunting or 'nonpareil'
loves the canary seed he gets from our fe~ding
tray and must have his nest nearby but 1 have
never seen it.
We have the parula warbler that builds its tiny
nest in the moss on our oak tree, the yellowthroated warbler who comes every day to feed at
the window feeding station, the hooded warbler
and the Maryland yellow-throats who take almost
as many baths in the summer as the hermit
thrushes do in the winter. The crested flycatcher
flew in yesterday.
But if you want a real treat, Mrs. Charles, just
come down to Myrtle Beach and let me take you
for a long walk on the strand. There we can see
all of the seabirds - the gulls, the terns, the
sandpipers, the sea hawks and the eagles and
all the different ducks. During the fall we see
long lines of duck and geese going south 9r.
settling down on the water for a rest and in the
summer those awkwardly. graceful pelicans fly
up and down our beach looking for fish.
One of the first thingl?_we did when we moved
out to "Cherokee Place" 'i:as to fix a bird bath
and three feeding places near the house and now
1 have a window feeding tray. We keep bread
crumbs, grain, peanuts and used to have suet to
go on the trays and always have fresh water in
the bird bath, which is the top of a large garbage
can set among some rocks near our living room
window, and almost every time we look out we
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see a bird getting a drink or taking a bath. The
birds have to share their water and food with
the squirrels and last summer, during a very dry
spell, a black snake came every day for a drink.
There are lots of cute things our birds have
done but this letter is about long enough. I will
tell you, though, that we saw a titmouse come
to the window tray last year with a long juicy
worm in his bill, get a piece of bread to go with
his meat and fly on to his nest, I reckon even
birds like a balanced diet.
Emeline Dusenbury
of the State.
The development of a splendid group of highways throughout the Pee Dee section has contributed largely to the rapid growth of the re sort.
From practically any point in North or South
Carolina those who wish to visit the beach may
avail themselves of sand and clay turnpikes
which offer a continuously comfortable trip. Bus
lines have been quick to realize the importance
of the beach traffic and now make connection
with trains at Marion and Mullins and convey
passengers direct to the resort.
SAND AND CLAY TURNPIKES OPEN UP
THE BEACH!
The Myrtle Beach Hotel was built some years
ago (1) and has undergone frequent remodeling
to meet needs of increased patronage.
In 1920 an annex to the hotel, having some
fifty .rooms, was constructed. Throughout the
past two seasons the hotel has been taxed to'
capacity and the probability is that another hotel,
or extensive additions to the present plant, must
soon be built.
Hotel and annex overlook the surf, (2) board
walks connecting the buildings with the strand.
Fishing boats of the hotel take the water each
mor~ing, returning in the afternoon after a full
day's fishing on the rock-like formations ten or
twelve miles off shore. Hundreds of rock and
black fish and other edible species are daily
caught for consumption at the hotel. The surplus
is sold to occupants of the long rows of cottages
which stretch along the strand.'
In 1921, a pamphlet issued by the Conway
Chamber of Commerce with photographs by Warren
J ohnS9lJ., Conway, a section called "Myrtle
Beach" appears. Wequote:
Situated fifteen miles from Conway on the rim
of a great bay of the Atlantic Ocean lies Myrtle
Beach, the premier summer resort of the South
Carolina coastal section. The statim' of Myrtle
Beach is a terminus of the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad operating from Elrod to Myrtle Beach.
Thi'S line makes a connection with northbound
and southbound trains of the Atlantic Coast Line
from New York to Florida. Myrtle Beach also
forms a terminus of a branch of the ildtional
highway stretching from Myrtle Beach to Marion
and connecting with all the important highways
Long rows of cottages along the strand. 1921.
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Reading
from top -
Hotel
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Pavilion;
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Myrtle
Beach
Hotel;
Annex
to hotel.
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The Myrtle Beach Farms Corporation,
which
owns and operates the hotel, also owns a truck
farm of some 500 acres within a half mile of the
hotel. Irish potatoes, beans, beets, lettuce and
other vegetables are grown in sufficient quantity
to supply the hotel lavishly, as well as for exportation to Northern markets. The sea food and
truck crops with which nature has blessed Myrtle
Beach enable the hotel to provide a splendid
cuisine for its guests.
A dancing pavilion adjoining the hotel has
been very popular with the young people who
visit the beach. This pavilion is undergoing enlargement and will be sufficient to care for twice
as many dancers during the season of 1922 as
heretofore. A splendid string orchestra is engaged by the hotel management.
NOTES
1. The hotel, named the Sea Side Inn, was built
in 1901 and kept in good repair. (See IRQ, Vol. 1,
No.3, July 1967). It was not on the strand but
in a clearing
between dunes surrounded
by
scrub and wind blown oaks.
From its porches
the horizon only was visible. From its cupola,
the entire sweep of strand was visible.
2. The annex was nearer the strand on what was
then the beginning of a second row C?fcottages
in the vicniity of the present pavilion's carnival
rides.
May 15, '1927
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THE SPUR
RAMBLING THROUGH THE MID-SOUTH
By John Vavasour Noel
RESORT ATTRACTIONS
The surf and strand of Myrtle Beach are ideal
for swimming. Situated on the rim of a great
crescent shaped bay of the Atlantic Ocean, the
beach is somewhat sheltered from rough water.
There is little of the tug and pull of cross currents which wear and wash beaches in more ex-,
posed positions. The strand is smooth and hard,
making a fine driveway for automobiles
at low
tide. (3) Competent lifesavers
are employed by
the management,
but the smoothness
of the
ocean's bed and the relatively gentle action of
the waves reduce the element of danger to a
minimum.
Off shore some miles is to be found fine fishing for those who can brave a broiling sun and
mal de mer. The fishing is usually done at a
point above formations of rock which are gathering places for several species of fish. Fishermen
use two or three hooks to the line and fish some
hundred feet or 'more below the surface.
Closer inland in the early fall salt water trout
may be caught just beyond the breakers. When
sc~ools o~ these fish appear fine sport may be
enjoyed WIth rod and line.
Mullets begin to make their runs along the
beach while the summer season is on and great
sport is enjoyed by net fishermen. Crabs and
flounders may be taken from creeks and inlets
only a short distance
from the hotel.
Myrtle
Beach is close to the Waccamaw and Pee Dee
ri,vers, splendid game streams, and those stoppmg at the hotel or at cottages may have fresh
water fishing at the end of a half hour;s run by
automobiles.
XVI. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,
all-year resort in the making
a stupendous
Charming indeed is Myrtle Beach, with its
many mi~es of beautiful silvery strand, one of
the sceOlC wonders of the South Carolina coast
.
'
Its balmy climate, and directly behind the towering sand dunes, the luxuriant virgin forest. But
it is more than charming. The adjective,
while
fitting, is tame, Glorious Myrtle Beach is more
adequate,
and when the great all-year resort
city, now in the making, arises and the peaceful
countryside
awakens, it will be ASTOUNDING
MYRTLE BEACH, THE PLAYGROUND OF THE
NATION.
We had motored from the Western North Carolina,
mountains, through the Piedmont section, to this'
histo.ric coast. Rumors had reached us that at .
Myrtle Beach, so named because of the great
profusion of wax and other varieties of the Myrtle
Beach shrub, a group of Southern men and Southern c~pital,
was engaged in fashioning
from
Nature's
prodigal gifts a great centre for the
benefit of the State and Nation, with an' altruistic
ideal of service to humaniry. There was to be,
we were told, a sportsman's
paradise,
a playground for all, with hotels and club houses ,
around which would grow a series of restricted
communities of various types, with all manner
of sports, hunting and other forms of amusement.
So we wanted to see this resort in the making.
We drove from Con way through a rich agricultrual
country, past forest and semi-tropical
foliage,
to a vantage point where before us glistened, in
the afternoon light of a balmy March day, the
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great beach,
extending
for miles, majestic,
peaceful and alluring.
For centuries Myrtle Beach has been a desirable place for ocean bathing, hunting and fishing. For years it has been an increasingly popular seaside resort, with its boardwalk, pavilion
and the buildings and cottages typical of many
such places. on any coast within reasonable
access.
In the past great pine forests were
separated only from the ocean by the sand dunes
and the evergreen Myrtle bushes and small pines.
As gradually parts of the forests were cleared,
the rich soil was cultivated
and small settlements sprang up. But the areas were so great and
the food plants so fruitful that much of the region
is wild and full of game. Here also flourished
the famed indigo industry of the Carolinas, and
cotton and rice grew nearby on the old Southern
plantations.
During the summer season Myrtle Beach enjoyed great popularity, and then the watchman
paraded nightly on the deserted
shore. The
charm of it s winter climate was not generally
realized and there was no suitable hotel. With
the growing demand for accessible
playgrounds
from bleak and storm ridden cities of the North
the coast of the Carolinas has been coming into
its own. Due to the proximity of the gulf stream
and the sheltering forest s, barri ng an occasional
cool and rainy day, the weather is mild and delightful in the winter, as it is along much of the
California
coast. We were told some people
swim in the surf here every month of the year.
There is never any undertow.
_
In colonial days the famous King's Highway
from Boston to Frederica,
Georgia, passed by
Myrtle Beach and is still used in parts, particularly Northward to Little River. When the tide
was low it was the custom to travel on the firm
beach from the last named place to Wither's
Swash. It was thus that Washington traveled on
his triumphal tour in 1791 when he visited the
Southern states and renewed associations
with
his old war comrades. He described his trip in
his diary and refers to his visit to the home of
MOr. Vareen, near Little River. From there he
drove along the beach, crossed
Singleton's
Swash and spent the night at the Withers Mansion, a few hundred yards below the Myrtle
Beach seaside resort.
It was Colonel Holmes B. Springs, a banker of
Greenville, S.C., a native of coastal South Carolina, and now Vice-president
and Executive
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manager of the Development Company, who first
inte~ested Mr. John T. Woodside, and Mr. Woodside's brothers, J. David, Robert I. and Edward
F. Woodside, also of Greenville, in the purchase
of the property.
Through the years the beauties and charm of
Myrtle Beach have been famous through the
Carolinas,
but only ""hen the property was purchased by Mr. John T. Woodside and his brothers
did this glorious strand begin to come into its
own. Mr. Woodside is a man of rare vision and
enterprise and realizing the magnificent natural
resources
of this beautiful coast, he has seen
its possibllities
for the Nation. His City and
State already owe much of their industrial and
economic progre,ss to him and his brothers, but
their greatest service will be the development
of this ideal coastal section into a resort of
natural reputation.
Mr. Woodside plans to use
and devote his great administrative
gifts to the
. building of Myrtle Beach for the enjoyment of all.
The thoughts of Mr. Woodside and his brothers
are not commercial profit alone, but the building
of a great city for the benefit of the State and
Nation. The owners, the Woodside brother Sj are
prominent cotton manufacturers and bankers.
In the executive offices, temporarily at the
comfortable Seaside Inn, it was indeed inspiring
to hear Mr. Woodside outline his plans, and relate
what had already been accomplished within less
than a year. A glance at the maps staggers one
for the vastness of the program and later a visit
to the property, under the guidance of Mr. C. G.
BroJln, the Assistant Business Manager, adds to
one's
bewilderment,
because
of the titanic
undertaking
foreshadowed.
Here lies' a real
principality,
some 66,000 acres, which means
about 104 square miles, with 12 miles of one of
the most magnificent beaches in the world, virgin
forests, rich farms and picturesque dunes. The
landscape
architect,
the contractor,
the golf
architect and engineers are busily at work. There
will be groups of communities along the King's
Highway which parallels the strand. Where the
Myrtle Beach resort is now located will be the
administrative
and business section, the railroad
and. highway terminals, the public utilities and
summer cottages. This section of the resort has
modern hotel facilities
and other buildings are
being erected
rapidly. Five miles northward,
through the 100-foot wide proposed concrete,
King's
Highway, with its great whiteway, a
modern fireproof resort hotel is to be erected,
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on and facing the beach and on a plateau 29
feet above sea level. Nearby will be the country
club and a golf course is now being built under
the direction of Robert White a well-known, golf
course engineer. The greens are all to be grass
greens. The three eighteen-hole
golf courses
with their 72 holes are so arranged that each
course begins and ends at the club house, and
makes an outstanding feature of the development.
Owing to the location of the links, in view of
the ocean, the unusual topography of the land,
the pleasing manner in which long leaf pine,
forest oak and evergreen shrubs are interspersed,
the links will be one of the most attractive and
best in this or any other country. Here also will
be the polo field and near will be miles and
miles of ~rida1 paths through the woods and
along the beach. Facing the broad shaded avenues which converge to a central park, in a setting
oJ pines and shrubs, are the home sites for the
winter and summer colony that will center around
the hotel and club. A few miles beyond, the
forest with its beautiful fresh water lakes is
held in reserve to be used later for an exclusive
residential
section of estates,
each of many
acr~s. It is near this region that the great game
preserve of 15,000 acres, a sanctuary for all
wild life, is being established.
Much has already been done toward the consummation of this program. Over ten miles of
wide avenues have been cut. One 18-hole golf
course is to be finished in the early fall. At that
time the roads will be completed, the club house
erected and additional public utilities installed.
An important feature of this countryside
is
that back of the beach the land is high and dry.
There are no marshlands nor swamps nearby, and
the beach is one of the few on this coast that
can be reached from all sides without crossing
swamps, rivers or inlets. The soil is remarkably
fertile, full of humus from centuries
of plant
growth and needs no fertilizer except for quick
crops. years ago a canal fourteen miles in length was built, draining some 7,000 acres, 1,200
of which are planted in potatoes, string beans,
com and other crops. To those of us who are
unaccustomed
to think of farming on such a
magnitude, the present planting local plan embracing 300 acres in potatoes and 100 acres in
string· beans alone was an inspiration.
There
are also large herds of fine Hereford cattle and
hundreds of Red Duroc hogs as the basis of a
prosperous enterprise. In time much of this rich
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farm land will be clearnd and divided in to units
for colonization purposes.
There are nine beautiful fresh water lakes in
the woods near the ocean to be used in connection with the development of the exclusive residential section and as a part of the game preserve. From their shores there is excellent duck
shooti ng and splendid
fishing. Below these
lakes is Singleton's
Swash which will be used
for a yacht basin, making contact with the Inland
waterway, which will probably cross the property,
and with the ocean. Along the sand dunes is an
ideal site for a seashore golf course which will
pro bably .be laid out in connection with the exclusive colony referred to.
Accessibility
to this winter haven will be
excellent.
By trai n there will be this fall direct
Pullman service, 19 hours from New York and 37
hours from Chicago. The great Atlantic Coastal
Highway will be tapped at Marion some 50 miles
away, over good sand clay roads to Myrtle Beach,
soon to be hard surfaced. In a few years a channel will be cut from Little River to the Waccamaw River as part of the National inland waterways system of this coast. Funds have been
appropriated by the U.S. Government and the survey is to be made this summer. This means that
yachtsmen from the North and elsewhere will be
on t.heir way to or from Florida waters. The
King's highway will be extended north and south
to Wilmington and Georgetown,
respectively,
thus furnishing a direct route to the South.
That is the story of our astounding .~iscovery
at Myrtle Beach, another of our "Ifinds" in these
rambles, and certainly the most stupendous in
magnitude. The place teems with activity. An
army of enthusiastic
men, young and old, mostly
Southerners, keen and alert, overrun the temporary administrative
headquarters. The.r.e is expecttancy in the air, "Ithings are doing," and action
is supreme. It reminds us of the old days when
we saw the Buffalo Fair rise as if by magic and
of the time when the Panama Canal in the busy
days of 1909 to 1914 was being dug. And it also
recalled the railroad construction days i n many
South American lands where men sweated and
engines throbbed. Myrtle Beach, with the exception of a few technical advisers, is being developed by Southern men and Southern capital, and
thus not only in the industrial field but in fashioning a great playground is Southern resurgence
manifesting itself and preparing the way for the
great immigration from North and West, which
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has already begun and which the next generation
will see in full action.
Little did the Father of our Country coming
south dream as he gazed on the iridescent sands
of Myrtle Beach and on the forest to his right,
that he was crossing the site where his grateful
countrymen would some day gambol and restore
their youth in the balmy air of the Long Bay. Gay
maids and gallant youths will here perhaps, in
hours of play, adorn themselves with the fragr ant
leaves of the Myrtle, which according to the
the Greeks, was a symbol of youth and beauty,
sacred to Venus and used in all their festivals.
Myrtle Beach is colossal in its possibilities,
with its vast area of 104 square miles of farming,
timber and huntingJands.
FROM MYRTLE LEAF TO SUN-NEWS
"This is National Newspaper Week, and here is
how it all started in Myrtle Beach" is the editor's
note to this outline history of the Myrtle Beach
press,
evidently
taken
from the SUN -N EWS,
though no name nor date is given in the clipping.
From the "IMyrtle Le~f" to the SUN-NEWS,
the story of Myrtle Beach's publications unfolds.
The first py_blication in Myrtle Beach was the
"[Myrtle Leaf," put out monthly by H.T. Willcox,
now municipal secretary.
Willcox was also responsible
for sending out the first Associated
Press
release
with a Myrtle Beach dateline.
On June 1, 1935, J .C. Macklen, a merchant ,
founded the MYRTLE BEACH NEWS with C.L.
Phillips,
his brother-in-law, as editor, however,
it was not until August 1 that the first linotype
machine was bought.
Phillips
resigned
his editorial
position in
1936, but returned in March 1940.
In 1946, William A. Kimbel purchased the NEWS,
but three years later was called to serve as ECA
Field Administrator
for the Marshall Plan. He
sold to J ames Lee Platt, also publisher of the
MULLINS ENTERPRISE.
W. LeRoy Harrelson purchased the newspaper
in 1954, and for a time published semi-weekly
and then daily, but the attempt was unsuccessful.
When Harrelson took a position as public relations assistant
to Gov. Ernest F. Hollings, the
NEWS was bought by the Chicora Printing Company, a consolidation
of the HaRRY HERALD
and MYRTLE BEACH NEWS.
In later development s, the HERALD was sold
to Mark Garner and the NEWS was purchased by
the Grand Strand Publishing
Company, which
operated
the newspaper from April 1960 until
August 1961.
Meanwhile,
in 1950 another newspaper had
been originat5!d in Myrtle Beach - THE SUN,
published by Garner.
The last link in the chain of newspaper development occurred in 1961, when the NEWS and
the SUN merged, forming the SUN-NEWS.
CONQUISTADOR GHOST IN CHICORA LAND
CI aude Dunnagan
Do the unreincarnated
ghosts of murdered
Spanish .soldiers walk the sand dunes of South
Carolina's
Grand Strand beaches?
Some very
knowledgeable
and sober-minded
believe they
do.
lt is a historical
fact that the first Spanish
settlement
on the North American continent,
north of Mexico, was made on)ower Waccamaw
Neck, across Winyah Bay from Georgetown, 3.C.,
the spot being formally declared the property of
King Charles V of Spain on June 31, 152l.
In 1526, the Spanish Licentiate Lucas Vasquez
de Ayllon, commanding a fleet of five small
ships and a large capital ship, sailed into the
then unexplored Cape Fear River through Southport Bay. On entering the river inlet, the capital
ship ran aground and was lost along with its
precious cargo, but the crew was saved.
According to records reproduced in Paul Quattlebaum's
recently published book "IThe Land
Called
Chicora",
some eighty hor ses, along
with about half of the able-bodied soldiers in
the expedition,
were put ashore near _ present
Southport, N.C., and began an explorative march
southward, while the remaining five ships in the
fleet sailed southwest toward Winyah Bay.
Somewhere
enroute
southward
the Spanish
soldiers encountered hostile Indians, and several
Conquistadores
lost their lives. Author Quattlebaum says "They naturally would have followed
the Indian coastal path, in later centuries developed and known as the King's_Highway, much
of which is now Highway U.S. 17."
Camping along the higher ridges and dunes
overlooking
the sea, the beleagured Spaniards
fought their way southward. Before they reached
Winyah Bay, the arrows and spears of the Chicora
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I ndians had lain many of their brethren's bones
to bleach in the Carolina sand-ridges along the
coast.
Just south of Windy Hill Beach, S.C., lies a
beautiful I-mile long lake of fresh water. On the
north and eas t side of the lake rises a high,
wooded ridge covered by huge oak and pine
trees. From this ridge you can look across the
placid lake to the Atlantic's
rolling surf. Along
this ridge, and southward, amateur and professional archeologists
have uncovered numerous
Indian and Spanish relics.
From the standpoint of fresh water and food
(fish and game), sixteenth century coastal travelers could not have found a better place to .pit<;h
camp. It is also the exact site of the old King's
Highway (U .S. Highway 17 is several hundred
yards to the west) which was originally the old
Indian Coastal trail, running from Southport to
Georgetown.
Could this have been the spot where a number
of Spanish soldiers were attacked and killed by
the arrows of the Chicora Indians? A number of
people - as well as a psychic dog - believe
that several Conquistadors
departed this life in
sudden violence here, leaving their wandering
souls to pace the ridges of the coast they had
tried to conquer and settle.
At the north end of Long Lake now stands a
lovely small brick house owned and occupied by
Mr s. Eileen Coates. It is on a high spot on the
ridge - precisely
the spot which would have
been selected as a lookout post by a camping
military contingent in hostile territory. Some 100
yards westward, also overlooking the lake, is
situated the home of Mrs. Elizabeth
Patterson
and Meher Spiritual Center, a pleasant,
restful
retreat.
It is on the wooded ridge between these two
houses that some very sane, sensible and solid
citizens
have reported seeing apparitions
of
Spanish soldiers strolling along.
It is a generally known belief among students
of reincar~ation and psychic matters relating to
the "'soul" that persons slain suddenly without
warning, as in sleep} do not make the transition
to the "Blue Island" quickly or peacefully. The
violence of their dispatch leaves their souls
wandering a bout the place of their demise,. unaware that anything has happened to them, or, a~
least, unwilling to accept the fact of their bodies'
death. They continue to roam the vicniity of
their last known contact with corporeal life, as
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if searching for their lost leaders and companions.
Thus, people who have witnessed concrete or
sensory symbols of these lost, long-dead Castillian soldiers, believe that, knowing nothing else
to do, they continue to guard and patrol the
lookout post on Long Lake ridge.
Who has seen them?
Here is a verbatim report of one, a highly educated lady in excellent
mental and physical
health, .a former English concert pianist who is
unquestionably
practical and realistic.
She is
Kitty Davy, a guest at the residence
of Mr s.
Elizabeth Patter son.
.
..
"One evening about 9 o'clock, in July, 1967,"
Kitty reports, "I~ was walking along the main road
of the middle gate entranc.e of Briarcliffe Acres
from our (Mr s. Patterson's)
bouse toward the
residence of Mrs. Eileen Coates. I had my flashlight with me, but did not have it on as the sky
was lit brightly by moonlight. On my right was a
border of green shrubbery and tall trees.
",Suddenly, I beCame aware of another presence. There was no sound. Only the feeling that
someone or something was there.
"I continued walking. There, a little to the
right of the path, was the clear figure of a
human being, walking slowly ahead of me, about
eight feet away.
"iThe figure was of medium height, and obviously a man. It was draped in a long, dark
military coat, with a 3-inch wide strap at waistline behind. On his head was a military type cap
of the sort seen in pictures of the Peruvian and
Mexican Conquistadors.
His hands were stuck in
his pockets as though he were cold.
"I found myself following behind the figure as
he walked ahead of me. His gait was light, as
though he walked on air rather than the ground.
There was a faint transparency
about his silhouette as he passed between me and the moon
hanging over Long Lake.
"He never turned around, but I had a strange
certainty that he was conscious I was following
him. Nearing the Coates house, I noticed a ~""'qll
car parked on the street just outside the dri veway. Here the apparition turned, and moved toward the car. In a brief instant the figure disappeared into the car or across its hood. No sign
of life was then visible on the empty, moonlit
road.
, ',I mentioned nothing of this to anyone that
night. However, the .next morning, I related my
experience to Eileen. She smiled and said, 'Of
course, it was one of the Spanish soldiers.' _
"Am(!Zed, I asked,_ 'What Spanish soldiers?"
"Don't you know,' she replied, 'that Spanish
soldiers have peen walking up and down this
ridge for years?'
_
",She then explained. '} haven't seen them myself, but several of my guests who are psychic
have remarked about them. In each case the guest
was from out of town and a stranger to this area,
having heard nothing of the sightings. It was
almost always on moonlight nights that my guests
saw the soldi_ers. Invariably their descriptions
were identicaL'
"IEileen then told me how her dog, Stinky,
would often greet the disembodied visitors.
"'Stinky would perk up his· ears and trot over
to the sliding glass wall, suddenly alert and his
tail wagging furiously. His bark on these occasions was the type with which he always greeted
known friends •.. a sort of bark and affectionate I
whine. Since .Stinky died some months ago,' Mrs.
Coates added, 'I like to think he has j9i~ed his
soldier friends on their moonlight patrol.' "
Col.
Quattlebaum
La"a
Janette.
July 1969
Page 18
with
his
gr..,e:hildren.
Paul
Jr.
and
COLONEL
QUATTLEBAUM.
One of Hampton's Red Shirts
Colonel Cephas Perry Quattlebaum was born in
Lexington District, South Carolina, May 19, 1851.
He grew to young manhood in the trying days of
Reconstruction. As a child he was taught chiefly
by tutors and by older members of the family. He
read law in the office of Major H. A. Meetze of
Lexington, South Carolina, and was admitted to
the bar November 25, 1874. Shortly thereafter he
moved to Conwayborough (now Conway), South
Carolina, and commenced the practice of law in
partnership with Chancellor W. D. Johnson and
J. Monroe Johnson under the firm name of Joh~sons and Quattlebaum. In Marion, the firm was
Johnson and Johnson. The partnership continued
to the death first of Chancellor W. D. Johnson,
and then to the death of J. Monroe Johnson, after
which he continued the practice of law alone,
except for a short while when he had as a pa_rtner!
C. E. S1. Amand. His practiGe was chiefly in the
civil courts.
.
Colonel Quattlebaum, as he came to be generally known, put all of his ability and youthful
energy into the campaign to rid South Carolina of
. Radical rule. He was a leader of the Red Shirt
Movement in Horry County and contributed much
to the carrying of the county overwhelmingly for
the Hampton ticket. He took an active part in
the contest over the election, and was able to
prove fraud in certain election returns from Horry.
On taking office, Governor Hampton appointed
him _~s "Aide-de:.camp to the Commander-inchief" with the rank of lieutenant colonel. A like
commission was issued to him by Governor W. D.
Simpson, who followed Hampton as Governor.
When Governor Hampton appointed him on his
staff, it was no empty honor. There was work to_
be done. Under the guise of "'Rifle Clubs,"
Colonel Quattlebaum organized a regiment of
troops in his section of the state. These were
fully equipped and prepared for any eventuality.
When more quiet times followed, Colonel
Quattlebaum took his place in the forefront of all
civic activities, led a movement for the incorporation of the town of Conway in 1898, and became
its first mayor.
He was active in fraternal orders, and held not
only office in local lodges but also high positions
in the state organizations. He was a member of
The Knights of Honor and of The Knights of
Pythias, and he was a Mason. While a law student
July 1969
at Lexington, he united with the Baptist church.
Later in life he joined the Presbyterian
church
with the rest of his family. He was widely known
for his high sense of honor and integrity.
He was married to Janette
Taylor McQueen
(born March 22, 1852) of Chesterfield
County,
South Carolina, December 23, 1884. She was a
daughter
of Major Alexander
McQueen (born
May 13, 1819, died April 7, 1904) and his wife,
Marjory Macfarland (February
23, 1824, died
June 25, 1895), who was .born in Scotland. Both
are buried in old St. David's Cemetery in Cheraw.
His wife died October 29, 1927, and Colonel
Quattlebaum died July 20, 1929. Both lie buried
in Lakeside' cemetery, Conway, S. C. '
CHILDREN:
Paul, born February 25, 1886, died August 9, 1964
McQueen, born March 27, 1888, died
Perry Cephas, born March 24, 1889.
Marjory Gillespie, born January 20, 1891.
Col. Quattlebaum's
(Article
Page 19
home and family
by and pictures
courtesy
on Kingston
of Laura Janette
Street.
Conway.
Quattlebaum)
REMINISCENCES OF MOSES FLOYD SARVIS
C. B. Berry
(The following
account of a conversation
by
Moses Floyd Sarvis,
was furnished
me by Mrs.
Ruth Brinkley in 1959. Mrs. Brinkley,
a descendant of Peter Vaught, Sr., originally
resided in
Georgetown, S.C. but now resides at 5711 N. 25th
Road, Arlington,
Virginia.)
"Toddville,
S.C. - August 27, 1929 (when
Moses Floyd Sarvis was 93 years of age) - Peter
Vaught, Sr. lived towards Little River. Had a son,
Peter. Peter Vaught, Sr. came to our house when
my father was living. He was very absent minded,
and one ~ay, after taking a pinch of snuff from
my father's snuff box, he put it in his pocket. My
father met him one day on Columbia. He said
to my father, taking the snuff box from his pocket,
"Sarvis,
have you ever seen this snuff box?"
My father said to him, "Mr. Vaught, I had one
Nextdoor
is house that
later
became the home of his
son Paul.
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July 1969
like it." Mr. Vaught said, "Well, it's yours. I'm
absent-minded and took it off your mantle, took a
pinch of snuff and put it in 'my po~ket. My father
said to him, "'Well, keep it. I don't need it any
longer. I've decided that if God intended me to
sniff snuff , he ..would have turned my nose up
instead of down." He then told a very humorous
story of a whale; s tooth. My father (Mr. Sarvis
said) was a member of the legislature at the same
time Peter Vaught, Sr. was in the Senate. Once
s mall pox Qroke out (or some epidemic) and the
General Assembly met in Charleston instead of
Columbia. My father ~aid, "'Mr. Vaught, if w~
. take it and die it won't rob us of many days."
Mr. Vaught repl~ed, "That may be so, but I want
those few days." Mr. Vaught was a very good and
a very prominent man in the county. Was Senator
for a number of ye~rs. When I was a young man I
went to Mr. Vaught's one day to do some surveying for him. He had a great many slaves. I never
heard anything wrong about a Vaught. Peter
Vaught lived to be possibly 80 odd. State Senator
about 1858. He was too old to go to the War (Civil
War) - Mr. Sarvis di.ed during the last part of
1932 or first of 1933."
N. B. Mr. Sarvis is apparently mistaken about
Peter
Vaught serving in the South Carolina
Senate since the public records do not bear this
out. However, he did serve two terms in the
House 1858-1860., 1860-1862. As a young man,
he taught the Rice Planters School, served as
Tax Collector for Horry County for many years
ana as Sheriff in 1815 and 1816. His plantation
~onsisting
of thousands
of acres was located
between Windy Hill Beach and Myrtle Beach on
which a post office, Vaught, S.C., was later
located and named for one of his grandsons.
See also Vol. 2, No.3, July 1968, this journal,
article about Myrtle Beach Salt Industry for more
information about Peter Vaught.
See also the last issue, Vol. 2, No.2, April
196'9, for an article and photo of Moses' Floyd
Sarvis.
After a murder trial, the judge sentenced a young
Horryite to hanging. The boy's father asked that his
son be allowed to return home long enough to help the
futher make a crop and promised that he would return
the boy for hanging after the spri ng term of court. The
judge acreed. The bargain was kept and the family
together built the coffin, hauling it into town on a
wagon, using the coffin as a seat .upon which the condemned son, his bro.thers and sisters all sat.
SilhOUl!!ttist
and
Enterll..iner
Conventions - Clubs
Illustrations and Adwrtisin,
Deliill5
CAREW
RICE
WIGGINS
-:;REEN
PONe
ROAD
s
C
2"".15
No place has ever been dearer to me than Conway and Horry County. The most pleasant memories wer~ built up there in my childhood and by
my father's loving descriptions of the places and
people of the Independent
Republic. That all
started with me about 1904. A short while ago I remember the Epps Drug Store and the kind and.
handsome proprietor! A heavenly place where he
made the milkshakes in the good old Milky way!
The stars were' in the eyes of the children who
were eager for the foamy product of the shaker!
I remembe'r our moving day, when we rode down
the river to Georget~wn, on the old sidewheel
steamer, "Burroughs"
- It was a bitterly cold
day and ice formed on the deck when a deck hand
dr~w up a bucket of water from the 'river and
splashed
a little on the deck. Immediately it
turned to ice! At Bucksport and at Toddville, we
stopped to pick up passengers
or to unload and
load freight. Someone gave Capt. Dusenbury a
giant head of a collard, and other things to feed
on. A Glorious trip all the way! We ~topped in
Georgetown for a while at Mrs. autler's Winyah
Inn.
I remember seeing them building th~ steamer
Sessions at the bend in Kingston Lake's waters.
Dark waters that scared a little boy (myself!) I
remember the storm of 1904, when water was
deep in our yard and chcikens dived their heads
like ducks for the corn we threw in the clear
water!
Thanks, dear lady, for the {etum of pleasant
memories of long ago. All the best wishes,
Sincerely yours,
Carew Rice
(The
drug store operated
by Dr. C. J. Epps,
pharmacist,
was called Conway Drug Company.
The steamer was named SESSOMS as listed in
the IRQ, Vol. 1, No.2, April '67)
July 1969
The Independent Republ ic Quarterly
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LITTLE RIVER
1914-15
B. G. Langley
Main Street, Little River, is also Highway 17,
the old King's highway; therefore the captions
written in white ink under the two pictures of the
street are mistaken as Highway 17 runs north and
sou tho The live oak grove is a- quarter of a mile
east of Highway 17. It is now the main landing
where fishing boats dock. The house shown on
the left is maybe the oldest home at Little River.
It is the old Sam G. Ver-e~
still occupied
by Mrs. Vereen. The landing today is the main
landing for fishing boats and chief river port. It
is the main port of the river front built up with
the Hurricane Restaurant,
the Blue Heron Restaurant, Riverview Hotel and Motel. The Riverview was originally the L.F. Bryan Home, the
first on the waterfront. This was the home of Miss
Nelle Bryan, daughter of Mr. L. F. Bryan, Sr.
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July 1969
HOMEWOOD COLONY
John P. Cartrette
Home of Jame~ E. Moore. built about 1874. Courtesy Mrs.
Alma Hanson, Homewood. This home which burned in 1914
predated the Homewood Colony. The present Moore home
The intersection of U.S. Highway 701 and State
319 now known as Homewood was formerly called
Grantsville.
On June 17th, 1898, F. B. Gault,
surveyor,
made a plat of lands belonging to
Burroughs & Collins Company. (Plat NO.1 Page'
2. Filed in Clerk .of Courts office March 1, 1913.)
Joseph' A. Brown -secured options on portions of
. this property and. acted as salesman or promoter.
Mr. D. T. McNeill wad designated
Trustee for
transfer oititle to this property.
. The lands involved were from Crab Tree Creek
on the South to and West of Potato Bed Ferry
Road (U.S. Highway 378); Eastward across the
Waller Short Cut Roaq near Cochran Town; -Eastward across the Cool Spring Road - Highway 319
and the Fair Bluff Road or Placard Road (Highway 701) above Homewood; Continuing Eastward
across the A.C.L. Railroad to Grier Creek or
is on the same property on Highway 319 occupied by Mrs.
Celeste Moore Smith and Mrs. Alma Moore Hanson.
Lake Swamp. A partial Northern boundary was
Tarkill Creek and Brown Swamp with an additional section North of 'Brown Swamp at Homewood.
(About 12 years before this the railroad had been
extended to Conway and the town was incorporated in 1898.)
Settlers
came from the Northwest and elsewhere. The Rollinsons
came from Des Moines,
Iowa. Garfred Wakelin was the only one who had
his address, Aurora, Illinois, written in his deed •
Miss Bessie Rollinson was deeded Lot 155 which
was on the East side of the Potato Bed Ferry
Road (Highway 378). Ot~er Rollinsons
bought
lot s numbered in the ISO's which were between
it and the Dog Bluff road (Highway 501). Bessie
Rollinson (Mrs. J. K. Stalvey) and the Donald
Waddingtons are the sole remnants of the large'
num ber of settlers, still residing in the locality.
July 1969
The Glanz family was from Belgium. The
Brays were German. From their names, English
and other nationalities must have been represented.
At the intersection of Cool Spring road (Highway 319) and the Fair Bluff or Plac~d road
Highway 701), they built a hall and a school.
They named the new development Homewood. In
this hall, church and Sunday School services
were held. Also plays with local talent were
presented to the public. Mr. John Harris tells
me that he played the part oCthe drunkard in
(lTen Nights in a Bar Room." E.S.C.· Baker,
A. J. Baker and John Lewis were coached by
Mrs~ Lyons, one of the settlers, for extrance
examinations at the Citadel and Clemson.
The colony introduced truck farming, including
strawberries. Returning from a trip to Conway my
parents stopped to talk with a Mr. Sessions,
across the road from the present Homewood
Elementary School.l was watching a horse on a
treadmill threshing oats(I think). Maude Sessions,
a little girl, brought me a quart of strawberries,
the first that I had ever seen. Until recent years
.there was a row of. pear trees, remnant of one
of the many orchards, .where the Coastal Monument Company is now located. There was a board
sign across the road oppo!?ite the entrance t9
the gQlf course on 701- "Homewood Nurseries."
This road was well known as the Nursery road.
Mr. E. S. Cultra. operated a mirsery on the Waller
Short Cut road -:- south of Coch~an Town. The
Lees and Waddingt9ns operated dairies.
Each Fourth' of July there was a large celebration at Homewood~ People from Conway and
elsewhere in the county drove their surreys,
ca~sl buggies and wagons to the festivities.'
Patriotic speeches, races with prizes awarded to
the winners included mule, bicycle, foot, threelegged, and sack races. Also there was a prize
for catching and holding a gl-eased pig. There
was a pole (pine sapling with the bark peeled
off smooth and greased) for contestants to clim b.
Those reaching the top were given a prize ($5.00
I believe). George, Mary and Harry Bray, at a·
stand between the sweet gum trees, sold ice
cream, lemonade and firecrackers.
Ashby and Eastoup lived on the Waller Short
Cut road. One did the house chores and .the
other the outside work on the farm. A Mr. Wait
lived on the Cool Spring road and rode a bicycJe
daily to and from his work at the Clerk of Court's
office in Conway. He recorded legal documents
Page 23
in long hand
letters plain as news print.
Joseph Hegy signed an agreement to erect a saw
mill and cut timber for $1. per thousand feet.
Dr. Dietz was a dentist and commuted to Conway.
Land prices were around $5.00 per acre. In
1899 John Holdens paid $200.00 for lot No. 69 46.9 acres. Lot no. 266, 80 acres, sold at one
time for $100.00 Lot no. 2 was bought by Samuel
W. Harris, 10~ acres, for $125.
The break up of the colony was evidenced by
some sheriff's sales. Lot No. 144 - 20 acres
brought $10 on the first sale and $26. the second
time.
Mr. J .E.Nicholas
owned a store managed by
Mr. John J. Norris on the same side and beyond
the present Coastal Monument place.
Jacob Zimmerman was a section boss for awhile
on the railroad betw_~n Conway and Myrtle
Beach. He lived then at Pine Island. On Sundays
he could get some Negro men to work his lever
hand car, taking him and Mrs. Zimmerman to
Homewood for a visit.
(I SECURED A MAP FROM BURROUGHS AND
COLLINS COMPANY. THE NAMES WERE SECURED FROM THE BOOK OF DEEDS AT THE
COURT HOUSE. BOTH GRANTORAND GRAN3EE BOOKS WERE SEARCHED TO GET A
DOUBLE CHECK.
LOT NUMBERS AND
NAMES OF PURCHASERS ARE ON A LIST IN
MYPOSSESSION.) JPC
The' Mrs. Gantts of New York owned a farm
there. They hired Mr. Zimmerman for a time to
manage it. Nearby was a ·church for Negroe.s.
They reserved one comer for the Zimmerman's
to worship with them. If he needed a dozen
hands to pick beans' on a Monday morning, he
had the pastor to. announce that Captain Jake
needed so, many hands for the next day.
. The land was poor. Orcharding, trucking and
dairying was too far away from markets and the
colonists began to drift away. By the 1920;s
only the Hansens, Dixons, Lees, Waddlngtons
and Mrs. Stalvey remained.
Sur Names of Homewood Colony
Andre, Acker, Asker, Ashby
Boom, Burrow(s), Brastonne, Bargesser, Bray,
Biehl, Be~n, Bolt, Burson, Bradham, Barbary
Cannon, Clark, Cox, Clary, Cultra, Causer,
Caudrey, Carswell,
Curry, Cole, Campbell,
Clough
Davis, Deanne, Dolphin, Dowling, Dietz, Draper,
Dickson, Dixon, Donahue
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MORE KIND WORDS
Elmer, Elliott, Elvis, Eastoup, Engler, Edgerly
Fuller, Fox, Fleming
Glass, <;i1anz, Grange, Goodjohn, Granger, .
Gilbert
Hegy, Healy, Halderson, Hanson (Hansen), Hetzer, Hadley, Hathaway, Hines
lronmonger
Johnson, Jordan, Jacobi
Kinne, Kamnelade, King, Kenna
Lee, Lewis, Lyon, Livesay, Leary, Leeds
Mercer, Milliman, Moore, Morgan, Millins
North, Nelson (Melson?), Norris, Nicholas
Oswalt
Penny, Pal matary, Patten,
Pettenger,
Pettibone, Proctor, Pollock, Powell, Patterson
Roff, Rollinson
Sessions, Shorer, Stokes, Stephens, Sherman,
1,
Spears
Thorndike, Turpin
Underwood
Van Trees
Waddington, Weimer, Whitlock, Whipple, Wendt,
Wood, Wait, Wakelin, Witham, Wisby
Zecker, Zimmerman.
Progressive
right
Home
standing:
George Bray,
Mrs.
Davis
Miss
Mrs.
Moore,
Makers
Millie
H.
L.
Miss
Club,
Horry
Glass,
Lee,
National Trust for Historic preserll~tion G_~"'''''
741 JACKSON PLACIl, N. W,
June
Miss Florence
T. Epps
Editor
Th.e Independent
Republic
Miss
WASHINGTON,
D. C. 20006
(202)311-3304
13. 1969
Quarterly
514 Main Street
Conway,
Dear
South
Miss
Carolina
29526
Epps:
Thank you so much for remembering
my interest
in
Conway, South Carolina.
Your Horry County Historical
Society's
Quarterly
is excellent,
and is a welcome addition
to our archives.
I would like
80 much to know what became of my
friends·,
the Means, at The Breakers
in Myrtle
Beach, and
you do find out anything:-drop
me a p08tcarq.
if
I think
your plan for your Tricentennial
Week with
river
boat rides
sounds exciting,
and poasibly
will
be more
glamorous
and entertaining
than some of the other
programs
proposed.
can help
We will
in any
be interested
in hearing
from you if
of your preservation
programs.
we
Sincerely..
.
l
1~[~\yy ~...v.i!V>'Et
Mrs, Helen Duprey Bullock
Senior
Editor
and Hhtorian
HDB:bb
County,
Mrs~ Julius
Louise
Dora Singleton.
July 1969
Republ ic Quarterl y
organized
Waller,
Lee.
Left
Miss
August
1911, the first
Maynie
Hanson,
Mrs. Belle
to right
sitting:
Spivey,
Mrs.
Mrs.
in the state.
Mrs. Charlie
B.
Spivey,
F. Moore, Mrs.
Homer Glass
Jacoby.
Left
to
Mrs.
Ward,
Mrs. Ren
Phillips,
Mrs. Manzy Gause, Mrs. Hattie S. Witherspoon,
Mrs. Mishoe. Mrs. Alma Hanson, Mrs. E. S.
Cultra,
Mrs. Glass.
Courtesy Mrs. Alma Hanson, Homewood.
These women were from the Homewood
Community.
J ul y 1969
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The Independent Republ ic Quarter! y
1-10QJ2YCOUNTY
SOCIETY
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II MIDDLE MILL - (Bucksville) - was the second and between the other mills, thus its
name. In the river only a few pilings remain
of the docks where schooners from faraway
places such as the West Indies tied-up. Across
those wharfs passed lumber of pine and cypress, some of which went into the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. In the 1870' s
Middle Mill was the largest
and the first
steam-powered
mill in South Carolina.)t
was
here too, that the pr~ud "Henrietta"
was
built. "IT he Henrietta,"
a ship that measured
over 200 feet, and is pictured on one of the
Society's Quarterlies, met its end in a typhoon
off the coast of Yokohama, Japan.
OF- MI\..~5
~
t
I UPPER MILL - This house was built in 1828
by Henry Buck who came to South Carolin;
from Bucksport, Maine. The house, built or
wood and framed by two large chimneys,
stands on the banks of the Waccamaw River.
To the left of the house stands the remains of
the smokestack of the first of three lumber
mills built by The Buck Family., This mill
and surrounding land were called Upper Mill
because if was the most northern of the three
sawmills. The property has remained in the
Buck Family since 1828.
Upper
Mill
House
Middle
Mill
Chimney.
Bucksvllle
All that remains today of that lumber and shipping enterprise, is a massive 100 ft. chimney;
a fitting monument to early Horry Industry.
This Society hopes that the chimney can be
preserved as an historical site.
III HEBRON
METHODIST
CHURCH - This
church was built in 1848. An earlier chr::;
near here was established
circa 1760. The
simple Greek Revival church is constructed
of heart cypress and pine. The interior walls
are of plaster. The floors are unique in that
single boards were used that extend the entire
width of the church. The windows, doors and
shutters
were a gift of a sea captain and
came from New England. The pulpit is of
Honduras Mahogany. Interestingly,
the pulpit
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July 1969
and altar are located between the front doors.
This plan was used probably to permit the
rear doors to be used by servants. As in all
old churches of that time, a partition divides
center pews separating
the men from the
women. In the rear of the church stands the
organ, which can still play.
Displayed in a truck are shingling tools, old wood
a hacker used for cutting the V's in pine trees for
tine, sugar cane stripp ing tool, and clay mold for
brick. Two young boys took turns blowing from
WaccamawRiver steamboat whistle.
-Sidney F. Thompson in blacksmith shop holding strainer,
used in boilin.l:. sug_arcane for syrup. To the wooden handle
is attached a metal basin which skimmed off the Scum of
the boil ing juice.
IV THE SARVIS - THOMPSON HOUSE - The
kitchen and dining room, built circa 1830, by
Cornelius Sarvis, a local planter and surveyor,
extend away from the main part of the house.
These two rooms have their original paneling
and are connected to the house by a porch
(now enclosed). On this porch is located the
old 'kitchen well, which was built into the
house probably for convenience.
The larger
section of the house was built by The Thompsons in the early part of this century. The
Thompson Family was a large one so seven
bedrooms were in order. Interesting
features
of this section of the house are two huge
Chimneys. Each has two fireplaces
on the
lower floor and a flue opening in each room on
the upper floor for the installation
of wood
burning heaters. The· bricks were made here
on the plantation and the molds are on display along with a number of old farm relics.
The house is owned by The Thompson Family
and its present occupants are Mr. and Mrs.
J ames Cope.
planes, '
turpenmaking
an old
V WACCAMAWPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-This
church was built in 1898, and is a simple
white frame building. The timber for construction was cut from near by Bells Bay Plantation, and sawed into lumber at Eddy Lake,
where there was a thriving lumber business.
The property for the church was a gift of
Benjamin Franklin Moore. The interior of the
church is strikingly
beautiful.
The walls,
floors and ceiling are of natural heart pine.
.The pulpit is attributed to 0 Ie Andersen, •..•
a
Norwegian shipbuilder,
and is hand carved.
The ends of the pews and wainscotting are
probably his handiwork. Some of the pews
have backs made from a single piece of wood';,
In the hall at the side of the c~urch, is kept
the grand piano that graced Bell's Bay Plantation. The piano, made in the 1800' s was acquired for the Dusenbury family in Savannah.
H and carved
pulpit.
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July 1969
The churchyard, filled with azaleas and camellias, is a veritable garden in springtime.
H and carved
pew.
VI ROAD'S END, Bucksport - The house was
built in the 1870's by Henry Lee Buck and is
covered by cypress shingles giving it a lovely
Cape Codish personality. Mrs. D. V. Richardson, Sr., gave it the name Road's End. It is
surrounded by moss-draped live oaks.
The original kitchen was a building all its
own, built so as to prevent careless servants
from burning the entire house. The farm and
waterfront
docks
remained
in the BuckRichardson family until 1957. The house and
waterfront are now owned by Messers John
A. Branton, Eugene Dorman, and J.T. Kittrell.
GENEALOGY
OF OUR DUSENBURY
FAMILY
Being
the youngest
member of my father's
children and losing him when [ was twelve, makes
me fearful to submit
what [ know of the Dusenbury family record for [ know much less than the
real story includes.
So, there is much [ want to know. [ believe my
grandfather,
James Elkanah Dusenbury had fourbrothers: Charles, Samuel Solomon, Timothy; and
Zacheus.
[ have dates, marriages, 'sons, daughters and their families as [have triedto do James
Elkanah Dusenbury for our lineage.
Thus, accept my apologies if some one is not
included or not listed properly. This is only the
facts that have been given to me and I'm anxious
to get all correct data possible.
Any material or
history along this line will be greatly appreciated.
Frances
Dusenbury
Johnson
Generation
1 Hendrick Hendrickson,
Van Doesburg in Gelder1andt, Holland,
married Marritjen Hendrick
from Van Haar1em, Holland, in June 12, 1655.
They settled in Hempstead, Long Island in the
mid-17th century.
2 Hendrick Hendrickson Doesburg and Marritjen
had Johannes Does burg, who was baptized in
1666 and who married Mary or Susan. It was
Hendrick Hendrickson
who in Sept. 5, 1664
was a signer of the petition concerning the
surrender of New York. Among others, Gerrit
Hendrickson,
a butcher, Hans Hendrickson,
Rulof Hendrickson
Esopus in 1673 made a
petition about the free exercise of religious
worship.
3.J ohannes Dusenbury
and Mary had:
4 John Dusenbury, who married Elizabeth Mudge
in May 29, 1736, had many children but whose
son Moses gives our lineage.
Road·s
End
5 Moses· Dusenbury and Elizabeth
Fowler. In
1772 Moses Dusenbury was collector of Phillips Precinct.
In 1773 Moses was elected
Commissioner
for laying of highways.
The
J oumal of the Provincial Congress and Committee of Safety, records that Moses Dusenbury
was colonel of a Regiment of Militia at Fredrickburgh and Fbelps Precinct in Dutchess
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County in May, 1776. Blakes History of Putman County states that the Family of Dusenbury were the original settlers of Phillipstown,
now the town of Putnam Valley. Moses Dusenbury and Elizabeth Fowler had:
6 William Dusenbury (1731-1815)
had 13 other children besides:
and Sarah Lane
7 Charles Dusenbury (May 18, 1730 - Feb. 9,
1809), born in Peekskill,
N.Y.
During the
Revolutionary
War, he served with Colonel
Hopkins 6th Regiment in Dutc~ess
County
Militia, also Colonel Luddington's
7 th Regiment. It is these military records that we
have used for membership in the Daughters
and Sons of the American Revolution Societies.
Charles married (Sallie) Mary Conklin and had:*
8 Samuel (August 4,' 1792 - July 12, 1861).
Samuel was commissioned
by President Monroe, in the war of 1812, as a surgeon's mate
and served on the Frigate "Old Ironsides."
He was born in Peekskill,
N.Y. but was
mustered out in Charleston,
S. C. There he
married Mary Ellis and settled in North Carolina, then to Horry County, becoming a Missionary Baptist Minister, public school teacher, industrialist
and land owner. He is buried
in Union Methodist Church Cemetery, Toddville, S.C. Samuel and Mary had five sons.
(When Mary died, Samuel married Sara O'Donnell Lay and had no more children. James
Elkanah
came to Horry, along with other
brothers. One or two of the boys remained in
N.C.
9 James Elkanah Dusenbury (Sept._ 23, 1824 Jan. 4, 1900) married Frances Green Sarvis
Nov: 12, 1826 - Nov. 30, 1882) on April 8,
1827 had:
10 A Hannah (Mar. 5, 1848) - Oct. 11, 1890)
married Ben Pinner
a. Arthur Pinner married Florence Sarvis
b. Frances Pinner married Billy Mills
c. Flora Pinner married Judson Dozier
d. V. D. Pinner married Ella Vause
e. Charlie Pinner - never married
f. Beulah Pinner married Charlie Roberts
.See
State
of New York
to Colonial
History
No. 265425.
archives.
of State
Val.
I Documents
of New York
relating
No. 221082.
Also
July 1969
10 B Cornelius (Neal) (Dec. 1, 1851 Aug. 1934)
married Sam. S. Dusenbury
a. Clarence Dusenbury married Nell Oppenheimer
b. Mary Dusenbury - never married
c. Robert Dusenbury married Sadie Thigpen
d. Corrie Dusenbury - never married
e. Delano (Della) Dusenbury
married Walter Harper
10 C Charles (Jan. 30, 1854 - Jan. 29, 1929)
married Rosa Saye (Oct. 4, 1851-Sept. 9,
1904)
a. Saye Dusenbury married Violet Officer
b. Frank (Dee) married Kate Phipps
c. Reba (July 11, 1887 - Feb. 5, 1965)
married Herbert Hucks (J an. 28,
1887-Aug. 19, 1966)
d. Mary Dusenbury married Vivian Platt
10 D Richard (Dick) (May 6, 1858-Feb. 3, 1919)
married Carrie Mayo (Sept. 25, 1867 - Nov.
19, 1928)
a. Mayo Dusenbury married Gladys Skinner
Carrie Lovelace Headle~
b. Julian Dusenbury married Suanne Daly.
C. Inez Dusenbury died young
d. Maud married William Gelzer
e. Frances married Wilmer McCown
Charles T. Johnson
10 E Flora (Feb. 18, 1861 -) married Robert Clark
a. Herbert Clark married Craig Hyatt
b. Joseph Clark never married
c. Frank Clark married Sadie Dusenbury
d. Bessie Clark married John Harbison
10 F Ben (Dec. 13, 1863 - Nov. 5, 1933) married
Talulah Shaw (Dec. 25, 1867 - June 1, 1947)
a. Sadie Dusenbury married Frank Clark
b. Fannie Dusenbury married John Mills
Lemmon
c. Margaret Dusenbury never married
d. Emmaline Dusenbury never married
e. Gordon Dusenbury never married
10 G Joe (Sept. 17, 1866 - May 1, 1931) married
Gussie Mayo (A.ug. 3, 1870 - Nov. 7, 1944)
10 H Frank (Aug. 13, 1869 - 1945) married Hallie
White
a. J. F. Dusenbury married Louise Johnson
10 I Bessie
roughs
(May 5, 1872-)married
Leon Bur-
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,
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"
a. Brantley Burroughs drowned
b. Estelle Burroughs married Pat Hilton
c. Vivian Burroughs married Weldon Bayliss
The above records are as correct as I could
glean. I have talked with Craig Hyatt Clark, Cor-.
rie Dusenbury, Sadie Clark and Ro"bertDusenbury,
and do appreciate any and all information used.
Also used mementos from Sam Sarvis (deceased)
and Bradley Dusenbury of Port Chester, N.Y.
Bradley supplied data for the first eight generations with New York the background.
Frances·Dusenbury Johnson
, (Mrs. C. T.)
Mrs. Frances Sarvl s Dusenbury, first wife of James Elkanah
Duse~bury. (See IRQ. Vol. 3. No.2. P. 21.
April 1969)
Wedding photo of Mr. and Mrs. James Elkanah Dusenbury.
The bride is the former Sarah Delano. (See IRQ. Vol. 3.
No. I, Jan. '69)
Mrs. Gussie Mayo Dusenbury, wife ~f Dr. J:S. Dusenbury.
(See her letter of Jan. 28. 1887, in the IRQ, Vol. 3. No.2.
p. 22. See Dr. Joe's picture IRQ. Vol. 3. No. I, Jan. '69.
p. 13.)
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30
THE DUSENBURY NAME
Recorded by Frances Dusenbury Johnson
In 1928, my brother, Julian Delano Dusenbury,
then of Greenville, S.C., contacted Bradley A.
Dusenbury of New York City, who was searching
for records of all Dusenburys.
Julian furnished
Bradley with our records, which went back to the
Revolutionary War and they fitted into the New
York lineage an~ there could be no doubt of the
geoeology of one's family.
In 1932 Bradley A. Dusenbury
published
a
small book privately printed, Port Chester, New
York, 1932,. from which I want to quote for the
benefit of anyone of our family interested. Quote:
HISTORICAL
I
COMMENT
",To the members of the Family who are familiar
with Dutch names and the changes which took
place therein during the early history of our
country, the fact that our Family name was not
Dusenbury
will not be of particular
interest.
There are, however, many of the Family who will
by this means originally learn thereof. The name
of th~ common anc.ester, Hendrick Hendricksen was
indicative that his given name was Hendrick, and
that he was the son of Hendrick, the suffix "sen;;
to the last name denoting that fact. To quote from
Mr. Louis L. Blauvelt:
"To begin with, but few of the early Dutch
colonists
had surnames, or family names, as
we know them today, and frequently when they
did have them they did not use them. Instead
they followed what is known as the patronymic'
system (or lack of. system, I might say). That
is, the child took the father;s name with the
suffix, se, sen or szen added. Thus a child
named Gerret whose ~ather;s name was Hendrick
would be known as Gerret Hendricksen, (Gerret
son of Hendrick), when he in turn had a son
named Johannes
would -probably be Willem
J ohasen."
It is quite likely that Hendrick Hendricksen
soon found, after arriving in America, that there
were other Hendricks
who were sons of other
Hendricks and that his name, Hendrick Hendrickson, caused him to be confused with other men
of like name. Therefore, very likely in order to
be more definit~!y distinguished
there was added
"van Doesburg." Later, it is found that in drawi?g up deeds, wills, conveyances and other docu-
July 1969
mants, the Hendricksen
~~s dropped from the
name and "van Doesburg"
eventually
became
Dusenberrie,
Dus~nborrow, Dusenberry,
Dusenbury or some s~mi1ar name.
,
The Town of Doesburg in Gelderlandt ,Holland ,
is still in existence
and the compiler has had
correspondence
with persons nearby. It is of
record in New York City that Hendrick Hendricksen on June 12, 1655, married Marritjen Hendricks, who came from Haarlem, Holland. It is
apparent that soon after their children were born
they moved to Hempstead on Long Island from
which place the Family started during the third~
fourth, and fifth generations
to establish themsel ves in other parts of the State of New York
and later in New Jersey.
A document under date of December 13, 1718,
discloses
that Benjamin Denton of Jamaica sold
to Samuel Dusenborrou (4-13) all his right in 1and
on Hungry Harbor. Then on March 15, 1720,
.
. Joseph Denton, a weaver, sold to Samuel Dusenboro (note the change to "Dusenboro;;)
(4-13)
1-3 part of a certain lot on Hungry Harbor Neck.
Tllen it is found that Henry Dusenbury deeded to
his son, Samuel Dusenbury (4-13) "For the natural
love and affection which he has and does bear
to his aforesaid son, Samuel, but more especially
for the sum of fi~e shillings,
English money to
him in hand paid" 100 acres, also a lot of meadow ground lying on a neck commonly called
Hungry Harbor Neck. This instrument was signed
on April 26, 1723, by the mark of Henry Dusenbury (4-8)
Another document dated March 9, 1744, dis-closes that "Benjamin Deusenbury and Thomas
Foster, Executors of the Last Will and Testament of Samuel Deusenbery (4-i3) and Sylvannus
Deusenbery (13-3) son of the said Samuel, make
a settlement of the dower to the Widow Hannah."
Other Patent Rights are found sold to Sylvannus
(13-3) by George Reersonunder
date of June 28,
1756. So that it appears the name went through
an evolution
of change from Hendricksen
to
Dusenbury.
In the year 1931, we f~nd the name spelled·
Dusenberre,
Dusenberry,
Dusenbery, Dusenbury,
and in other ways.
There appears to have been two major moves
away from Hempstead, Long Island, which to the
compiler are very interesting.
The first one took
place in the third generation when Henry (8) the
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first son of Hendrick (4) of Hempstead either
ventured across Long Island Sound or came by
the way of Long Island ~nd New York City and
settled in Rye, New York. From him there emanated most of the Dusenbury line which later moved
further north into Westchester, Putnam and Dutc"ess Counties. Members of this Family at one
time owned many parcels of real estate in Westchester County among which was 'the land occupied by the estate of the late Whitelaw Reid in
Purchase, N.Y., where there resided during the
summer of 1931 the King of Siam.
We find that under the date of April 11, 1771,
Thomas Ellison received from Sylvannus Dusenbere (13-3) the sum of one hundred and fortyseven pounds, fifteen shillings and three pence
in full of principal and interest secured by an
indenture mortgage. This mortgage was originally
signed by Moses and Elizabeth Fowler. This
receipt would indicate that Samuel of New Windsor was industrious and that between the date of
1769 appearing on the deed given by Moses
Fowler to Sylvannus Dusenbere and less than
two years, Sylvannus had paid hi.s indebtedness
for the purchase of the New Wmdsor acreage.
In'1614, Cornelius Hendricksen was Captain
of the Restless Ship.
Hendrick Hendricksen Ban Harstenhorst was in
. Beverwyck in 1656, he being a baker by trade,
He died September 23,166"2, leaving two children,
Sysbet six years and Quidick three years of age.
The collections of the history of Albany con. tai n reference to families who may also have
changed their name to Dusenbury. It is found that
Hendrick Andriese van Doesborch was surety in
1656, and that the surety consisted of 260 beavers. Hendrick Andriese van Doesburgh was in
Beverwyck as early as 1653, but was deceased
in 1664. His wife was Maritie Damena, widow of
Direck van Epps and by her he ~ad one daughter,
lannetri, who married Martinus Greiger son of
Captain Martinus Creiger of New Amsterdar,l,
and they settled at Meskayuna. After Hendrick
Andriese's death his widow married in 1664
Cornelius Van Ness. Hendrick Andriese alia
Hendrick Driesen Van Doesburg was an extensive
dealer in real estate. His sister Geertrug was the
wife of Jacob lanse Stol alias Hap.
The Colonial Manuscripts contain some interesting references to the Dusenbury Family"Therein is -recorded that in June, 1663: Ian Hendricksen --van Bommel, Lambert van Campen Hen-
dricksen, Varetanges Jacob Hendricksen, Hendrick Hendricksen van Island, Gerrit Hendricksen
van Amsterdam, Hubert van Ceulen Hendricksen
and Fredrick Hendricksen.
It appears that on the first Tuesday in April,
1734, Thomas Hendricksen, Henry Hendricksen,
Henry Dusenborrow, Mary Dusenborrow and Hariman Johnson, each befo~e Thomas Gildersleeve
Clark (Clerk), gave over part of their land for a
churchyard or burying place.
At the County Clerk's office at Poughkeepsie,
N.Y. on June 15, 1782, there is recorded a purchase by William Dusenbury for L183.9.0, of
certain land from Benjamin Robinson. This land
consisted of 305
acres, and was later owned
by William Dusenbury's great grandchildren, the
Haddens and their father, Gilbert Hadden. Gilbert
Hadden was living on August 8, 1873, having
been born January 2, 1804, and having married on
May 15, 1830, Mary Jane Dusenbury, who was
then 18 years of age. There are also recorded
purchase of land by Moses Dusenbury (1606).
Doubtlessly there has come throughout the
years to many members of the Family some information concerning a considerable estate belonging to the Dusenbury Family in Holland. Having
in mind the facts concerning the change in the
name, it very readily can be understood how uncertain mythical such a matter would be. Never.theless, in order to give to the members of the
Family the results of considerable research in
this matter, there is included herein an account
of the same taken from the records of William
Wiuner Dusenbury (16-183) and also the experience which a relative of the compiler had in
connection therein.
In March, 1877, William Warner Dusenbury had
a conversation with a Mr. Stoddard C. Westlake,
during which Mr. Westlake stated that his people
had obser ved an advertisement inserted about
thirty years before in one of the Philadelphia
papers about the Dusenburys calling upon heirs
to appear and claim their peoperty. Mr. Westlake
stated that his grandfather told him there was an
Estate in Holland amounting to some $11,000.00;
that it was important for the Dusenburys."to ',take"
good care of deeds which' they had, as these documents might help them to obt ain their share of
the Estate. William Warner Dusenbury then wrote
the following "there was a meeting held at 202
Bowery at the office of Mr. E.C.Humphrey of the
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Dusenburys and others related thereto in relation
to property in Holland. It was called by Mr. G. O.
Seward of Trenton, N.J . There were not over
seven or eight men present and three or four
women. I met Mr. E.M. Dusenbury of Liberty,
Sullivan County ...
Mr. Edwin M. Dusenbury
was made Chairman of the meeting. I told Mr.
Humphrey to give us anything he had heard in
Holland. He stated that the only' thing he had
new was that there was a John Dusenbury who
landed on New Jersey at Salem in 1676, and that
someone had told him that there was a Dusenbury
at some place near there in New Jersey about
125 years ago. He said he had nothing new on
the other side. (Holland.) Mr. Humphrey has a
great many pictures of Holland scenes . . . I
questioned Mr. Hunphrey about the statement
that this money could not be obtained from the
, O~phans Court by Consul Muller, but he said the
property was not in this court, but that it was in
the hands of the exectors and that the testator
had expressly stated that hi~, estate should pot
go through the Orphan~ Court."
When the compiler's Aunt Mary (x140) was
about eighteen years of age, a woman came from
Troy, N.Y., with a story that there was a million
dollars in the Bank for the Family. and that she
was a realtive. She solicited funds which were
contributed, so that she might go and inquire
more concerning the Estate. It was later reported
tha~ the woman went to Holland and obtained
some money, but that is all that my Family ever
heard about it and no funds were ever distributed.
It is the compiler's opinion that there is no
real foundation to this family tradition.
Quite likely everyone who has attempted to
compile a Genealogy has been good naturedly
told by his acquaintances not to dig too deeply
because he might di"gup a gallows with a member
of his Family at the rope end of it. This
statement was naturally made to the compiler
many times by acquaintances and relatives.
Howere, strange as it is, no criminal record of
any kind has been brought to light. On the other
hand, there have been found many instances of
the services of Dusenburys in the history of our
country in the War for Independance, the War of
1812, the Conferate War, the Spanish American
War and the World Wars. Also, which to the compiler is much more desirable and important, there
have been many instances of Community Service
July 1969
rendered by members of the Family in the Communities where they have resided.
Charles Dusenbury (16-48), was one of the
Commissioners who designed and built Croton
Dam. Any member of the Family who may be
interested will find a bronze tablet inside the
New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and
Forty-second Street, New York City, on which is,
recorded the name of Charles Dusenberry (16-48).'~
end quotation
Many more interesting records were found by
Bradley A. Dusenbury that lent considerable
adventure to the lives in the Dusenbury clan.
They are too many to quote but showed that our
family had a common ancestor and have contributed generously to the communities during the
establishment of our country.
CORRECTION FOR DATES IN APRIL 1969
The inscription on Richard Green's grave reads:
,
"Richard Green, Jr.
South Carolina
Pvt in Col Peter Horry' s Rgt S.C. Mil
Revolutionary W~r
January 11, 1855"
This grave is found in the old Camp Ground
Cemetery. History is fragmentary during this
period, but we do know:
Richard Green married Frances Davis in 1804.
His daughter Hannah Green was born in 18Q5.
Frances Davis Green died in 1808. Washington's
sword was ~iven to Richard Green, Sr. or Richard
Green, Jr. We believe it was given to Richard
Green, Sr. since it seems Richard Green, Jr. was
too young during the war to have been an aid to
Washington.
Frances Dusenbury Johnson
(Old Camp Ground Cemetery is on 9th Avenue
Extension, just beyond the ci!y limits of Conway,
adjoining the John A. J ones' new residence. It
is o~ Route 2, near the irltersection of the old
Kate's Bay Road.)
For
tween
tures,
please
October: Horry County during The War BeThe States. If you have old letters, picor legal documents of the Confederacy,
submit them no later than mid-September.
July 1969
Page 33
APRIL MEETING
On April 14, the HCHS enjoyed an outstanding
program. _Mr. Carl Sessions, descendant of nine
of Horry's sheriffs, presented an informative,
dramatic, and often humorous account of the last
four hangings in the county.
Mr. William Henry McCray of Bucksport, only
living son of the late William Henry (Bubba)
McCray, displayed two gold watches given his·
father in appreciation of his excellent cooki ng
and noble character: one by President Grover
Cleveland and one by a member of the Buck
family.
Mrs. Ernest Harper announced her plans f or the
Bucksville-Bucksport tour. In the absence of
President C., Foster Smith, Mr. Lacy Hucks presided.
Mr. Willian
W. McCray presents President Cleveland's
watch to his daughter Sharon. The President had requested
that.the watch.never go out of the McCray family. Standing
by IS a COUSin, Mr. James R. McCray. (Fleming Bros.
Photo Service)
Front row from left to right: Mrs. Ernest Harper, Mr. Carl Sessions, Mrs. Tempe Oehler, Mr. William W. McCray holding the
watch. Back row, Miss Rebecca Bryan and Mr. Lacy Hucks. (Fleming Bros. Photo_Service)
President's
The Independent
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Republic Quarterly
July 1969
THE BUCK WATCH
A be_autiful gold watch given to Mr. W. W.
McCray's grandfather is still in the _McCrayfamily, a cherished m_omentoof one man's good deed
and another man's appreciation.
Mr. McCray
shared both watches, The President Cleveland
Watch and The Buck Watch, with the Historical
Society and told this story:
His grandfather, Capers McCray, was working
for the Bucks at Bucksport when one of the children became very sick. Mr. Buck sent McCray for
the doctor. The river was the quickest way to
town, so he rowed the boat as fast as he could
and returned with the doctor in a remarkably short
time. Mr. Buck was ve~y grateful and told McCray
he had saved the child's life. To prove his appreciation, he offered McCray a tract 9f land which
he re(u~_edwith the words, "I' don't charge you
nothin'." Then Mr. Buck offered a hor~e which
he refused_wi th the same words, "I don't charge
you nothin'." After that he asked McCray what
he would pay for the watch, and after some reverse bargaining, Mr. Buck raised the price to a
quarter. So Capers McCray paid Henry L. Buck
1 twenty-five cents for the watch and the McCrays
have enjoyed it for many years.
The watch, larger than President Cleveland's
Elgin, is an exquisite piece of workmanship in
antique gold. It is decorated with a raised wreath
of flower s, seemingly of French desigI!! Mrs.
Aleen Harper added that the "sick child" was
the late Hal Buck (Henry L., II), father of Mrs.
Eugenia Buck Cutts and the late Henry Lee
Buck, III, and that he had suffered an accident.
The tract of land is now the site of the attractive W.L. Staley home on Highway 701 beside
which an angular dirt road leads directly to
Middle Mill. Mrs. Staley says that she heard the
story from Mrs. Jessamine Buck Richardson who
said that her brother Hal fell off a picket fence,
cutting painfully through his thigh to his crotch
where the picket was lodged. - The child suffered
high fever and as a result his eyes were crossed.
She also reports that Mrs. Buck was home alone
with the children when the accident occurred and
that the doctor came from Georgetown.
See IRQ Vol. 3, No.1,
Jan. '69; Vol. 3,' No.3,
April, '69 for further information about the Bucks
of Bucksville
and Bucksport)
Henry Lee Buck, I, born Upper Mill, Harry
County, S. C.
Henry Lee Buck, Jr., whose life was saved
by a faithful
servant's noble quickness.
H. L. Buck, Jr. (Hal) as a young man.
July 1969
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THE COLUMBIARECOROB
00
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ks And Arts
,
Sec lion D
THE INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC QUARTERLY
published by Horry County Historical Society,
Conway, S. C.
As South Carolina approaches her 300th birthday, many interesting experiments in historical
collecting, research, and writing are = springing
up.
One of the most valuable projects is under way
in Horry County. There the local historical
society, formed quite recently, has begun the
publication of a magazine, ~~THEINDEPENDENT
REPUBLIC QUARTERLY" which is now in its
ninth issue.
Articles written by local persons have been
published on almost every aspect of life in
Horry County - on churches, schools, hospitals,
sailing vessels and steamboats, railroads, banks,
families and resorts.
The material being assembled in the quarterly
comes from many sources - old newspapers,
forgotten secondary accounts, letters from the
attics, documents in the state archives.
The most unusual, and in the long run perhaps
the most valuable, are a number of oral history
projects.
The enterprising editor has gone to the very
old, sat down by their side, and as they talked
has written down their memories.
There _are reminiscences of Aynor Schools in
the 1920's, of Galivants Ferry long ago, of "th~
_gully store, flying ginnies, and wooden caskets/'
and of the Bethel African M. E. Church. What
Columbia University has set up on a profess'ional
scale has been undertaken spontaneously by the
citizens of Horry County.
By surveying these nine issues one can already
perceive the framework on which the history of
Horry County must be hung. From the establishment of Kingston Township in the 1730's this
region of South Carolina has served as a link
Between the Cape Fear and Winyah Bay.
Columbia, South Carolina, Sunq,y, April 13. 1969
The post road, over which Washington travelled in 1791, passed the coastal swashes and
Long Bay, desolate country where there were few
inns in which to stop. Only by ferries (a topic
already treated in these issues) could this region
be reached. It was its remoteness and lack of
transportation influencing its social structure
that gave it its name of the Independent Republic.
Peter Horry and Robert Conway, two Revolutionary heroes who had fought with Marion, were
honored when the area was reorganized. In 1801
Kingston County was renamed Horry Dis.trict and
Kingstop village Conwayboro. A list is given of
Conway's descendants, one of whom is Mendel
Rivers, the Charleston congressman.
The unknown period is that from the Revolution
to the Civil War. Until Col. Daniel W. Jordan
came from North Carolina to develop the turpentine resources and Henry Buck came from Maine
to develop the lumber and ship-building possibilities, there was little enterprise on a large scale.
C. B. Berry has described some of the pre-war
tar kilns and salt pans which historical archeology has revealed.
After the Civil War the story is clearer. The
firm of Bu~oughs and Collins sits at the center
of Conway's trade. The Hollidays at Galivants
Ferry are growing tobacco; the Bucks at Bucksport are building large ships. Capital and transportation were improved with the opening of banks
and the building of railroads (Hoyt McMillan tells
the first story and C.A. Spivey and J.P. Cartrette
tell the other).
By the end of the cent~y D.A. Spivey, called
the "young Vanderbilt,"
was "flexing his
financial muscles." Capital was being accumulated which would later be used to exploit the
coastal strand. The gradual recognition of Myrtle
Beach as a resort is charted in volume one,
number three.
Page 36,
The Independent
What is needed at this stage is a preliminary
sketch of the history of Horry County which
would provide the panoramic view into which the
local writer would fit his particular story.
Or if research proved a part of the larger view
wrong then alterations could be made. Ultimately
this would lead to a full and complete history of
Horry County, which, although once remote, is
now the summer mecca.
Miss Florence Epps, the editor, and her devoted associates have sparked a movement that has
produced the building blocks for the professional
historian. The historian of a nearby county has
already gleaned a number of facts to clear up
misconceptions
concerning eastern Carolina by
reading these varied and fascinating
pieces.
-
George
c.
Rogers,
Republic Quarterly
July 1969
AND MORE KIND WORDS
Jr.
(Dr. Rogers
is pro'fessor of history at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, and biographer
of two Carolina men.)
1968
BOOK REVIEW
WILLIAM LEWIS OF HORRY COUNTY, SOUTH
CAROLINA, by Mary Lewis Stevenson, Privately
Printed, 188 pages, Cloth. $10.14 Postpaid. May
be ordered from Miss Charlotte Stevenson, 309
Wateree Avenue, Columbia, S.C. 29205.
Genealogical
books about Horry County pioneers are rare but here is one that has been little
publicized
that names thousands
of persons,
whose origins were
principally
upper
Horry
County.
William Lewis, a Revolutionary
Patriot, was
born in Virginia in 1740, and died in August 181!.
His wife, Mourning Van Pelt, settled with him
close to Sandy Bluff on the road between Nichols
and Galivants Ferry and they became the parents
of eleven children. From these, thousands have
. descended
to help populate Horry and Marion
Counties and all parts of the nation.
An outstanding
feature of this book is the
index which amounts to 40 pages. Among the
surnames appearing more than fifty times in the
index are: Altman, Carmichael, Edwards, Floyd,
Gerrald, Harrelson, J ohnson, Jones, Lewis, Norton, Price, Rogers and Smith. These and scores
of other names listed combine to make this a:
book of interest to a large portion of the Horry
County population.
-- C. B. Berry
I would like to thank you for all of the enjoyable reading we have received from your constant
efforts on the Quarterly.
Fondly,
Sarah F. Smith
(Sarah F. Smith is the wife of our president,
C. Foster Smith, of 3400 North King's Highway,
Myrtle Beach).
38 Early Drive
Portsmouth, Va.
I have received my first copies of THE INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC QUARTERLY and am delighted with them.
There is mention of so many relatives, familiar
names and places. I am looking forward to receiving each copy in the future and I am happy
to be a member of the Horry Society.
Since!,ely,
Mrs. Gordon Vaughan
July 1969
>
January
21,
1969
Mr.. Florence
T. Epps. Editor
The Independent
Republic
Quarterly
514 Main Street
Con••••
ay. South Carolina
29526
Dear
Mrs.
copies
of
increasing
periodicals
Epps:
We appreciate
The Independent
Page .
37
your sending
to "Sandlapper"
Republic
Ouarterly.
We are adding
your publication
library
of South Carolina-oriented
.
to
Florence Epps doing the split in front of the Myrtle Beach
Yacht Club pier, early 1920's. This was the first pier on
our strand.
our everbooks and
. The quarterly
is serving
a vital
purpose
in Harry
County and the state--and
provides
a model which other
•
historical
societies
might well afford
to consider.
Very
truly
yours,
Delmar L. Roberts
A3s0ciate
Editor
DLR/css
4231 S. 35th St.
Arlington, Va.
Joree Wheeler of Florence, early· lifeguard of Myrtle Beach,
beside the Yacht Club pier, early 1920's.
The Yacht
Club was the last word in style until the Ocean Forest
Hotel and Country Club were built in 1928. The Yacht Club
later became the Ocean Plaza Hotel.
I have gotten much enjoyment from the historical publication. I still have the l~test one on my
coff~e table because I still haven't finished yet,
but I'm saving them.
Fondly,
Catherine Fellows,
(Miss
Fellows
IS
editor
of a journal
for the U.S.
Navy)
IRQ AMONG TOP. THREE
Barney Slawson, coordinator; historic resources'
division of the South Carolina Department of
Archives and History has announced that the
Independent Republic Quarterly was named among
the top three of the state's historical projects.
Horry is the only c~unty in the state publishing
such a journal, other counties being active in
restoration and preservation of old homes and
gardens, or plantation sites.
B illy Barrett· and one of the orchestra boys at side entrance
to the Yacht Club, early 1920's. The Barretts were among
the first ten Co.,way famiI i es to bui Id on the Myrtl e Beach
strand. The site of their home which burned is the corner
lot on which the first brick building of the Chesterfield Inn
now stands. Mr. Barrett' 5 home today is 602 5th Avenue,
Myrtle Beach.
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The train down Main Street, Conway. The first locomotive used on the Conway-Myrtle Bea~h road was formerly used on a tramroad, made of wooden rail s, built from
Pireway out toward Shallotte, North Carolina. When the road was abandoned, the engine was hauled by ox team to Whiteville, North Carolina, and later bought
by
the Myrtle Beach road. She was named "Black Maria." The first train from Chadbourne to Conway came in December 1887. The first train to Myrtle Beach was in
1900. Thou we have been unable to identify the persons here; the train, or date, we think the picture earlier than the "Black Maria."
For further history
of Harry railroads,
see
IRQ Vol. 1, No.1,
Jan. '67; Vol. 2, .No. 1, Jan. '68.

The Independent Republic Quarterly

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